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Agrarian Justice

A work by Thomas Paine, first published in 1797

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  • What korrents draws from it

    God made no one rich or poor and gave all people the earth as their inheritance, Poverty is created by civilized life and does not exist in the natural state, Civilization has made some people richer and others poorer than they would be in a natural state …

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    Thomas Paine

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Key facts

First published
17972
Edition korrents quotes
1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell3
Claims on korrents
181

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. God made no one rich or poor and gave all people the earth as their inheritance (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Poverty is created by civilized life and does not exist in the natural state (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Civilization has made some people richer and others poorer than they would be in a natural state (opens korrents.com)1

  4. No one born into civilization should be worse off than if born before it began (opens korrents.com)1

  5. The earth in its natural uncultivated state is the common property of the human race (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Only the value of improvements, not the land itself, is rightly individual property (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Sources

  1. Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Agrarian Justice, Q4693750 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell) (en.wikisource.org) (opens en.wikisource.org)

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