 | John Morley - Authors, French - 1900 - 370 pages
...arose civil society. " The first man sehojjiaying enclosed a piece of ground, could think _QJLj>aying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, miseries, and horrors would not have been spared to the human 1 Pp.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English essays - 1900 - 468 pages
...that spoliation. "The first man who, having inclosed a piece of land, took it into his head to say, ( This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. What crimes, what battles, what murders, and what horrible miseries, would he have spared the human... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Justice - 1900 - 412 pages
...essay on the Origin of Inequality, says : " The first man who enclosed a piece of land and said, ' This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of the bourgeoisie. How much misery, crime, war, etc., would have been prevented if another man had had... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...that spoliation. "The first man who, having inclosed a piece of land, took it into his head to say, <This is mine,> and found people simple enough to...believe him, was the real founder of civil society. What crimes, what battles, what murders, and what horrible miseries, would he have spared the human... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 536 pages
...civil society, are successive steps in the process of enslavement. "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This...found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would have... | |
 | Jules Lemaître - 1908 - 386 pages
...humanity. It begins with this effective passage : ^" The first man who, having enclosed some land, thought of saying this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civilized society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors would have been spared... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - Philosophy - 1909 - 380 pages
...self-preservation, the second law of nature. But — "The first man who, having enclosed some land, thought of saying 'this is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civilised society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors would have been spared... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - Dualism (Religion) - 1909 - 560 pages
...self-preservation, the second law of nature. But — "The first man who, having enclosed some land, thought of saying 'this is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civilised society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors would have been spared... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - Literature - 1909 - 376 pages
...self-preservation, the second law of nature. But — "The first man who, having enclosed some land, thought of saying 'this is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civilised society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors would have been spared... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 898 pages
...property in land. " The first man who, after enclosing a piece of ground, bethought himself to say ' this is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society." ' War, murder, wretchedness and horror without end followed this fatal proceeding. Rich and poor were... | |
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THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. 
