The Evolution of Property from Savagery to Civilization |
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18th century acres arable lands aristocratic arms artificers barbarians Béarn became belonged Bigorre bound bourgeois Cæsar capital capitalist cattle chief chieftain Church civilised clan collective property commerce common property communal lands communist constituted corn cotton cranial capacity crops cultivated customs defence economic England equal estates Europe EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY existence farms feudal barons feudal lord feudal property feudal system fields form of property France Greek harvest Haxthausen human Indian individual industrial inhabitants instruments of labour Irminon king landed property landlords LAURENCE GRONLUND live manufactured Marx matriarchal ment Middle Ages military modern Moissac nation nobility organisation owner pasture PAUL LAFARGUE peasants political possessed primitive primitive communism private property privileges production proprietor provinces repasts Revolution of 1789 rights of common Roncevalles Russia savage says serfs share slaves socage social society subsistence syssitia Tacitus territories tion towns tribes usage vassals village collectivities warriors women
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Page 76 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 35 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 66 - ... pass unprovoked. If plunder and devastation be directed against themselves and the force employed be irresistible, they flee to friendly villages at a distance ; but when the storm has passed over they return, and resume their occupations.
Page 66 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindoo, Patan, Mogul, Mahratta, Sikh, English, are all masters in turn ; but the village communities remain the same.
Page 135 - But after every allowance of this kind, I should find it difficult to resist the conclusion, that however the labourer has derived benefit from the cheapness of manufactured commodities, and from many inventions of common utility, he is much inferior in ability to support a family, to his ancestors three or four centuries ago.
Page 117 - I) your shepe that were wont to be so meke and tame, and so smal eaters, now, as I heare saye be become so great devowerers and so wylde, that they eate up, .and swallow downe the very men them selfes. They consume, destroye, and devoure whole fieldes, howses, and cities.
Page 134 - ... classes, especially those engaged in agriculture, were better provided with the means of subsistence in the reign of Edward III. or of Henry VI. than they are at present. In the fourteenth century, Sir John Cullum observes, a harvest man had fourpence a day, which enabled him in a week to buy a comb of wheat ; but to buy a comb of wheat, a man must now (1784) work ten or twelve days.
Page 80 - Ma bone espee, que li reis me dunat. Se jo i moerc, dire poet ki 1'avrat . . . Que ele f ut a noble vassal.