Excerpt from On Land Concentration and Irresponsibility of Political Power, as Causing the Anomaly of a Widespread State of Want by the Side of the Vast Supplies of Nature
We have been at all times reminded that sin fulness and error are the characteristic of mankind, and there can be no doubt that among these failings there is one, which, arising from the instinct that causes each to seek his Subsistence, leads him to appropriate more than he requires; and there is also ever the mistake made of constantly setting aside the dictates of our proper judgment, which prompts us not only to refrain, but to restrain others from committing such an offence; and it becomes very much a question whether these faults of commission and omission are not at the bottom of the wrongs we have alluded to, that is to say.
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