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 40 PROPERTY IN LAND.

is a very curious phenomenon, and well deserving of some closer investigation. What are the erroneous data what are the abstract propositions which so overpower the Moral Sense, and coming from the sphere of Speculation dictate such flagitious recommendations in the sphere of Conduct? To this question I may perhaps return, not with exclusive reference to the writings of one man, but with reference to the writings of many others who have tried to reduce to scientific form the laws which govern the social developments of our race, and who in doing so have forgotten strangely forgotten some of the most fundamental facts of Nature.

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