Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which we are living was preceded by a community of ownership where even food was apportioned out per capita. This system was finally broken up through the working of forces which led to the exaltation of individuals through military precedence, and out of this grew the fendal system of land ownership with the subletting of land to retainers. Then came the centralization of property in the hands of the king - the syllogism being adopted "The land is the state's - the king is the state - hence the land is the king...
...last the communistic ownership of property gave way owing to the vigor of enterprise which characterizes modern life. Men saw that the problems of the race could never be worked out or worthy attainments in art an the sciences be reached under that regime. Personal ownership of land and the right to its yieldings became an immense stimulus to effort...
...Gladden took the middle ground between an extreme theory of individualistic ownership and that of communism. The community still retains its right to the land it occupies and when private ownership injures the general welfare the state should recall its lands...
Christian morality protests against such a distribution of land as is permitted in England, where millions of acres are shut up in parks, while hundreds of her poor are hungry and homeless...
...Boston Globe published yesterday a half column account of the last Union Debate. The question for debate next time is "Resolved that the system of land taxation advocated by Henry George is consistent with the best policy of the state...