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http://www.prosper.org.au/progresspdf/Progress1056_JulAug2003.pdf

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, “This is mine”, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes, might not anyone have saved mankind by pulling up the stakes, filling in the ditch, and crying to his fellows, “BEWARE OF LISTENING TO THIS IMPOSTOR; YOU ARE UNDONE IF YOU ONCE FORGET THAT THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH BELONG TO US ALL, AND THE EARTH ITSELF TO NOBODY.”
- Rousseau

 


"The first person who enclosed a piece of land and be-thought himself to say, 'This is mine,' and found people foolish enough to believe him, was the real founder of our social system. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would have been spared to mankind, if somebody had torn down the stakes or filled up the ditch, and had warned his fellows, 'Beware of listening to this impostor; you are lost if you forget that the produce is for all, and the earth for no one.'" [Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Causes of Inequality among Men, 1755] - as quoted by James White


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