 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1936 - 1060 pages
...entire land of this Nation should belong to the people living here. As Blackstone said: The earth, therefore, and all things therein are the general property of all mankind from the immediate gift of the Creator. And as Herbert Spencer said: The world is God's bequest to... | |
 | 1890 - 838 pages
...whatever airy metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon this subject. The earth therefore and all things therein are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the Immediate gift of the Creator. And while the earth continued bare... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1979 - 50 pages
...the only true and folid foundation of man's dominion over external things, whatever airy metaphyfical notions may have been ftarted by fanciful writers upon this fubjeft. The earth therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclufive of other... | |
 | Richard Epstein - 2000 - 438 pages
...whatever airy metaphyfical notions may have heen ftarted hy fanciful wruers upon this fuhjeft. The earth therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclufive of other heings, from the immediate gift of the creator. And, while the earth continued hare of inhahitants,... | |
 | Herbert E. Sloan - 2001 - 396 pages
...like Locke before him, analyzed property and inheritance and came to similar conclusions. "The earth therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the creator," Blackstone explained to his readers... | |
 | Joshua Getzler - 2004 - 444 pages
...whatever airy metaphysical notions may have heen started hy fanciful writers upon this suhject. The earth, therefore. and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other heings, from the immediate gift of the creator, And, while the earth cominued hare... | |
 | Gregory Claeys - 2005 - 448 pages
...the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." - Gen. i. 28. The earth therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator:* and while the earth continued bare... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1880 - 810 pages
...whatever airy metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon this subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator." —Blackstone's Commentaries. 10.... | |
 | 1901 - 574 pages
...appropriated to the gods, so was the earth to the children of men." Blackstone writes (1756): "The earth therefore and all things therein are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of all other beings, from the Immediate gift of the Creator." Locke wrote in 1690: "It is... | |
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The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator. 
