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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 30

Herbert Spencer, in his "Social Statics:"

Herbert Spencer, in his "Social Statics:"

"Equity does not permit property in land. For if one portion of the earth's surface may justly become the possession of an individual, held for his sole use and benefit, as a thing to which he has an exclusive right, then other portions of its surface may be so held, and our planet must thus lapse into private hands. It follows that if the landowners have a valid right to its surface, all who are not landowners have no right at all to its surface."