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Page 29
... land- owning aristocracy steadily lost power , but instead of disappearing or becoming a fossil they simply intermarried with the merchants , manufacturers and financiers who had replaced them , and soon turned them into accurate copies ...
... land- owning aristocracy steadily lost power , but instead of disappearing or becoming a fossil they simply intermarried with the merchants , manufacturers and financiers who had replaced them , and soon turned them into accurate copies ...
Page 77
... land implies cutting out the landlord and the tithe - drawer , but not necessarily inter- fering with the farmer . It is difficult to imagine any reorganization of English agriculture that would not retain most of the existing farms as ...
... land implies cutting out the landlord and the tithe - drawer , but not necessarily inter- fering with the farmer . It is difficult to imagine any reorganization of English agriculture that would not retain most of the existing farms as ...
Page 78
... land ( probably fifteen acres at the very most ) , and will never permit any ownership of land in town areas . From the moment that all productive goods have been declared the property of the State , the com- mon people will feel , as ...
... land ( probably fifteen acres at the very most ) , and will never permit any ownership of land in town areas . From the moment that all productive goods have been declared the property of the State , the com- mon people will feel , as ...
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