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 \n[London]  \n[18--?]  \nCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION  \n# BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n333Z5Terrigenous pseud  \nOur inheritance:land,connon property;aletter  \nLondon  18-?D 16 p 194mlo.5 of a vol of pamplhletsLenden,工Watson,  \nRESTRICTICNS ON USE:  \n  Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Libraries.                     \n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\n35mmREDUCTION RATIO:            9:1MAGE PLACEMENT:IA   IB  \nIIB  \nFILM SIZE:              \nDATE FILMED:                      /31198 INITIALS:          F.C.  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                      3234la  \nN0,  \n十  \n33  \n## 0UR INHERITANCE:LAN D,COMMON PROPERTY!!\n\nBY“TERRIGENOUS.”  \nA LETTER.  \n1.The Antecedence of the Eartl's Eaxistence to that of Man.  \nMY FRIENDS,  \n1.Man did not make the earth!No,not so much as asingle tree or blade of grass.The fact is indisputable-all things were in readiness for the reception of man.Scripture can be quoted in support of the position.Thereshall we find that AFTER the dry earth was separated fromthe sea,and the former had brought forth“grass,theherb yielding seed,and the fruit tree yielding fruit,***the living creature after his kind,cattle,and creeping thing,and beast of the earth after his kind;\"and after the latter(the seas)had brought forth\"the moving creature thathath life,and fowl that may fly above the earth in the openfirmament of heaven,\"that man was then created.Yes,the world was in readiness for man—to\"replenish andsubdue.\"The authority is sufficient:it is at once conso-nant with common sense.Still,other authority,and evenmore convincing,perhaps,than this,could be supplied wereit needful.The almost infant,but grand and certain,scienceof Geology,establishes beyond the possibility of a doubt,  \nthat the earth must have existed for“thousands of years,”BEPOBE he time of man!But it is needless to enter intodetails.Let sceptics,if there be any,read what Geologistshave wr tten,and all doubt will at once vanish.It is enoughfor our )resent purpose to know that the Mosaic accountof the Creation assigns to the earth an existence antecedentto that of man;that Geology bears out the same positionmore fully and completely,by placing the earth's existenceto that of man at a period far more remote than does theMosaic uccount;—and that the same truth has been,andstillis,tniversally taught and believed.  \n2.This,then,(the antecedence of the earth's existenceto the existence of man)is our premise.Truly it is a veryold truth,but that matters nothing.It is not its age,butits appli ation,with which we have to deal.It is broughtforward for a new purpose,the accomplishment of an objectof para1ount inportance to the interests and welfare ofhumanity throughout the world.  \n## 2.The Commonality of Land Originally.\n\n3.Tlat mankind originally held Land jointly and incommon,has been openly avowed,admitted,and declared,even by the supporters of the existing institution of anindividual proprietorship of the soil.Paley,so well knownfor his works on natural philosophy and theology;WilliamCobbett.universally known as the authorof\"the Register,\"and several other politico-philanthropic works;and ThomasPaine,the celebrated author of“Common Sense,”andthe“R ghts of Man;”have each borne testimony tosuch fact.Thus Paley,in his“Moral and Political Phi-losophy,'has admitted that“Land was once,no doubt,COMMOx\"and in another part of the sane work he as-sures us that“Land,which is now so important a partof property,and which our Laws call real property,andregard upon all occasions with such peculiar attention,wasprobably uot made property,in any country,till LoNG AFTERthe instiution of many other species of property;that is,till  \nthe country became populous,and tillage began to bethought of.  缴*There are no traces of Property ","cbCaicd5Id82m4XI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicd5Id82m4XI","pdf",1178651,12,"English","# Our Inheritance: Land, Common Property\n## 1. 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