Land Fairness

There could be no such thing as landaught at first. Man did not make the earth, and, though he had a right to dwell on it, he had no right to it as everlasting aught; nor did the maker of the earth open a wicknerhuse, from whence the first landdeeds were dealt ute. From whence then arose the idea of landaught? I answer as before, that when tilth began, the idea of landaught began with it, from the uncummenliness of sundering the bettering made by tilth, from the earth itself, upon which that bettering was made. The worth of the bettering so far uteweighed the worth of the kind earth, at that time, as to eat it up; till, in the end, the meanright of all became mased into the tilthrights of men. But they are, nevertheless, sundry kinds of rights, and will keep being so, so long as the earth lives on.