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with the loss of the princely dignity, the obligation 

 of carrying the expense of court and administration 

 naturally falling away, these properties became in 

 most cases purely individual property of the former 

 princes. 



Not however, until the revolutionary movements 

 of 1848 and even later, was this divorce of the state 

 idea from that of the person of the prince everywhere 

 accomplished, nor was it carried through without 

 many bickerings and quarrels between the princes 

 and the representatives of the people, who claimed 

 this domanium for the state. In the larger states, 

 all this domanial property was finally declared state 

 lands, while in the smaller principalities a partition 

 of the land between the princes and the state took 

 place, or else a relation was established by which 

 a part of the revenue resulting from the state lands 

 was secured to the princes. 



An increase of the State's property came also during 

 the first decade of the century through the abolish- 

 ment of cloisters and secularization of church pro- 

 perty generally, the lands of both Protestant and 

 Catholic church institutions being taken by the 

 State. 



Curiously enough, at the same time that the idea 

 of state forest was being realized, the changes in 

 economic thought which brought the principle of 

 individualism to the fore gave rise to a movement to 

 sell the state properties. This movement was inspired 

 by French doctrines, whose influence was at the time 

 very strong, by the teachings of Adam Smith who 

 held that the state is not fit to conduct business, and 



