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Only the value of improvements, not the land itself, is rightly individual property
Drawn from what Thomas Paine said
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- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
And as it is impossible to separate the improvement made by cultivation, from the earth itself, upon which that improvement is made, the idea of landed property arose from that inseparable connection; but it is nevertheless true, that it is the value of the improvement only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property.
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↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org
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