The land is a solemn gift, which nature has made to man; to be born, then, is for each of us a title of possession. The child has no better birthright to the breast of its mother.
Jean-Francois Marmontel, 1757: Address in Favor of the Peasants of the North, Euvres, Vol. X, p.56.
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