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Chapter 68

           Totalkoftheirbeingtheaboriginesofthecountry—thereal,butdispossessed,ownersofthesoil—issimplenonsense.Thissophism,ofthemostspuriouskind,hastoolonghelddominionoverthemindsofmen.Thewholehumanracehasaninherentrighttothewholesurfaceoftheearth:andifanyinfinitesimalfractionoftheformerbychancefindsitselfidlyroamingoveranextendedportionofthelatter,theirexclusiveclaimtoitisalmosttooabsurdforargument—evenwiththenarrowest-mindeddiscipleofanaboriginessociety.

           Admitit—givethehunterhishalf-dozensquaremiles—forhewillrequirethatmuchtomaintainhim—leavehiminundisputedpossessiontoalleternity—andmillionsoffertileacresmustremainuntilled,toaccommodatethiswhimsicaltheoryofnationalright.Nay,Iwillgofurther,andriskreproach,byasserting:—thatnotonlythesavage,socalled,butcivilisedpeopleshouldbeunreservedlydispossessed—whenevertheyshowthemselvesincapableofturningtoagoodaccounttheresourceswhichNaturehasplacedwithintheirlimits.

           TheexploitationofEarth’streasuresisaquestionnotconfinedtonations.Itconcernsthewholefamilyofmankind.

           Inallthisthereisnotoneiotaofagrariandoctrine—notathoughtofit.Hewhomakestheseremarksisthelastmantolendcountenancetocommunism.

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