Excerpt from God and Our Right: An Historical, Legal and Ethical Defence of Tithe and Landed Property; Specially Written for the Anti-Liberation Society But these things have never been, and in the face of human nature cannot be, nor if they could, would they long continue, for mankind is emulative, ambitious and consequently egoistic. There would be little to live for under such a regz'me, and nothing to do but to watch the hours drag wearily along. Nothing can be more certain than that the forced apportionment of all kinds of property, whether directly or through the medium of the State, would be followed at no great distance of time by encroach ment, in which cunning and every phase of chicanery and fraud would play an underhand, but so far as the result was concerned, a very pronounced part. In other words, continual re-adjustments would alone keep the balance of interest in anything ap proaching an equipoise and prevent one man from enriching himself at the expense of his neighbour, though even re-adjustment would not be a complete protection against concealment and artifice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.