an usurper if A, B, and C taken each by him- 

 self is so. Moreover, I think I may take it for 

 granted that those who desire to make the State 

 universal landowner, would eject a corporation 

 from its estates with even less hesitation than 

 they would expel an individual. 



The particular method of early landholding <>f 

 which we have the most widespread traces is that 

 in which each of a great number of moderate- 

 sized portions of the whole territory occupied by a 

 nation is held in complete and inalienable owner- 

 ship 1 by the males of a family, or of a small 

 number of actual or supposed kindred families, 

 mutually responsible in blood feuds, and worship- 

 ping the same God or Gods. No female had any 

 share in the ownership of the land. If she 

 married outside the community she might take a 

 share of the moveables ; and, as a rule, she went 

 to her husband's community. If, however, the 

 community was short of hands, the husband might 

 be taken into it, and then he acquired all the 

 rights and responsibilities of the other members. 

 Children born in the community became lull 

 members of it by domicile, so to speak, not by 

 heredity from their parents. This primitive "city" 

 was lodged in one or more dwellings, each usually 

 standing in a jiatrh of inclosed ground ; of arable 

 land in the immediate neighbourhood of the 



1 InalicnaMc, tliat is, without the consent of the, whole 

 owning community. 



