The land for the people: how to obtain it and how to manage itWilliam Reeves, 1885 - 120 pages |
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The Land for the People: How to Obtain It and How to Manage It . . Charles Wicksteed No preview available - 2012 |
The Land for the People: How to Obtain It and How to Manage It Charles Wicksteed No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 63 - The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
Page 4 - I do not see how you can bring back the parity price simply by taking money out of one pocket and putting it into the other.
Page 114 - Compounding for sins we are inclined to, by damning those we have no mind to.
Page 102 - The Malthusian doctrine, as at present held, may be thus stated in its strongest and least objectionable form: That population, constantly tending to increase, must, when unrestrained, ultimately press against the limits of subsistence, not as against a fixed, but as against an elastic barrier, which...