Essays On Property And Labour As Connected With Natural Law And the Constitution
Essays On Property And Labour As Connected With Natural Law And the Constitution
Francis Lieber
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So far as man accumulates property — not in order to hoard it, but for the purpose of investing it for farther production — so far only advances he in the career of civiliza- tion. The improvidence and wasteful dis- position of savages, of men in the hunting > It may be proper to cite here a passage of Tacitus, Ger- mania, 26, which will be fully quoted in a subsequent part of this volume. It supports the remarks in this page. PROPERTY AND LABOUR. 75 and fishing states, and of nomads, are well ...knov/n; and as they contemn labour, while by industry alone accumulation of property can take place, they are found to remain in their subordinate state. The contempt for labour, and also for property beyond a few personal articles, in our Indians is signally deplored by the missionaries and govern- ment agents as the most serious obstacle in the way of civilizing them;' and a distin- guished traveller in Arabia Petrsea, speak- ing of the contrast between the high culti- vation and civilization of parts of it in an- cient times, and their desert state at present, ' Mr.
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