The book My Life a Record of Events And Opinions volume 2 was written by author Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Here you can read free online of My Life a Record of Events And Opinions volume 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is My Life a Record of Events And Opinions volume 2 a good or bad book?
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Were you to explain and defend that article, it would be a service which no one is so well qualified to render as yourself. " I had then recently visited the stone circles and bridges of Dart- moor, and also Stonehenge, and urged the importance of preserving them. At that time there would probably have been no question of paying more than the actual selling value of the land, and we should have been spared the dis- grace of having our grandest ancient monument, after cen- turies of neglect and ...deterioration, claimed to be private property, and having an exorbitant price demanded for it. But Mill's death soon afterwards put an end to the associa- tion, and we had to wait many years for the present very imperfect legislation on the subject. The question of land-nationalization continued at intervals to occupy my mind, but having become strongly impressed by the teachings of Spencer, Mill, and other writers as to the necessity for restricting rather than extending State agency, and by their constant reference to the inevitable job- bery and favouritism that would result from placing the management of the whole land of the country in the hands of the executive, that I did not attempt to write further upon the subject.
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