An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory ...: The end of the middle ages

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Longmans, Green, & Company, 1893 - Great Britain
 

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Page 422 - In that original state of things, which precedes both the appropriation of land and the accumulation of stock, the whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer. He has neither landlord nor master to share with him.
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