The Distribution of Ownership (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Underwood, Joseph Harding

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ISBN 10: 1333322143 ISBN 13: 9781333322144

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Because a man's wealth wnsisteth not in the abund ance of the things which he hath, because a man's spirit may be inwardly rich inversely to its outward security, he may be deferred to. Yet a man's periphery is usually measured in terms of economic ownership, which is the tangible measure of the social submission to his will. The power that arises from customary or affectionate allegiance may more often than not be found to be the long result of time - the residue of former contributions of goods and services to the ancestral personality. The ancestral periphery may not have been obliterated at the same time that its material contents were lost. At any rate the opposition between pride of birth and pride of wealth is modern.1 Homer's heroes and the heroes of the Nibelun gen Lied are noble and rich. In later Greek literature, pride of birth is identical with pride in seven wealthy ancestors in succession.

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Ownership measures the control over men. Holland analyzes a right into four essential elements: a person en titled, an object, an act of forbearance and a person obliged.1 If there were no other men whose actions could be governed either negatively by exclusion from material goods, or posi tively by contributions to their wants from material goods, there could be no ownership. Accordingly men were once held directly as a part of external physical nature. In eastern Africa the ambition of every negro is to have slaves that he may no longer have to work himself, but live at ease.2 The African is another Aristotelian. Aristotle said: In the rudder the pilot of a ship has a lifeless in strument, in the lookout man a living instrument. 3 This absolute possession was regarded as in the nature of things, as indeed it was. A warlike species of ant, formica san guinea has subjugated a negro species, formica fusca. And all races have followed the injunction, Go to the ant. The trace of property in men is universally written in the law of master and servant. In most civilized coun tries a man is held liable for the faults and wrongful acts of his servant.'

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1333322143
• ISBN 13: 9781333322144
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224