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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
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It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
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William Graham Sumner
Born:
October 30, 1840
Died:
April 12, 1910
(aged 69)
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