Supposing the entire habitable globe to be so enclosed, it follows that if the landowners have a valid right to its surface, all who are not land owners have no right at all to its surface. Hence such can exist on the earth by sufferance only. They are all trespassers. Save by the permission of the lords of the soil, they can have no room for the soles of their feet. Nay, should the others think fit to deny them a resting place, these landless men might equitably be expelled from the earth altogether
—HERBERT SPENCER, Social Statics (1850), Chap. IX.
[Note. — It should be remarked that after circulating this chapter for forty years, the author withdrew it. The truth however, cannot be withdrawn, and we quote this chapter on its own merits here and elsewhere. Its logic is unanswerable.]
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