The first man who, having enclosed a tract of ground, bethought himself of saying, "This is mine," and found people silly enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars and murders, what miseries and horrors, would have been spared the human race, if some one had thrown down the fence and filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellows, "Do not listen to this impostor. You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth are for all, and that the earth belongs to no one."
— JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Essay on the Origin of Inequality Among Men., Part II., p. 1.
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