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Where an estate has no direct heirs, society should inherit more than its usual tenth
Drawn from what Thomas Paine said
What Thomas Paine actually said
- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
Considering then that man is always related to society, that relationship will become comparatively greater in proportion as the next of kin is more distant: It is therefore consistent with civilization to say, that where there are no direct heirs, society shall be heir to a part over and above the tenth part due to society.
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↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org
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