Land and property

Without this collapse, we should never have had the conception of land as an exchangeable commodity, differing only from others in the limitation of the supply;

In saying that the now abundant phenomena of primitive ownership open to our observation strongly suggest that the earliest cultivating groups were formed of kinsmen, that these gradually became bodies of men held together by the land which they cultivated, and that Property in Land (as we now understand it) grew out of the dissolution of these latter assemblages, I would not for a moment be under …

It may now, however, be laid down without rashness that Property in Land, as known to communities of the Aryan race, has had a twofold origin.

For every day they send out their boys, from the very cradle, as it were, with such companions as each may prefer, ostensibly to hunt, but in reality to steal the property of the people who live in the country.

But depreciating this, some men heap praise upon those who have committed more crimes than all others and are not aware that they are betraying their own thoughts and showing that they would praise also men who, already possessing more wealth than they need, would not scruple to slay their own brothers and friends and associates so as to obtain their possessions also.

for they look to no other object than that of securing for themselves as many of the possessions of other peoples as they can.