Being himself heir to a large property, he was especially struck by the position taken up by Spencer in "Social Statics" that justice forbids private land-holding, and with the straightforward resoluteness of his age, had not merely spoken to prove that land could not be looked upon as private property and written essays on that subject at the university, but had acted up to his convictions, and, considering it wrong to hold landed property, had given the small piece of land he had inherited from his father to the peasants.
— COUNT LEO TOLSTOY, Resurrection,
Book I., Chap. 3.
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