First Principles

This world is the creation of God!

The men brought into it for the brief period of their earthly lives are the equal creatures of His bounty; the equal subjects of His provident care.

By his constitution a man is beset by physical wants on the satisfaction of which depends not only the maintenance of his physical life, but also the development of his intellectual and spiritual life.

God has made the satisfaction of these wants dependent on man’s own exertions, laying on him the injunction and giving him the power to labor – a power that of itself raises him far above the brute, since we may reverently say that it enables him to become, as it were, a helper in the creative work.

God has not put on man the task of making bricks without straw. With the need for labor and the power to labor He has also given to man the material for labor. This material is land!

Man, physically, can live only on and from land, and can use elements such as air, sunshine, and water, only by the use of land.

Being the equal creatures of the Creator, equally entitled under His providence to live their lives and satisfy their needs, men are equally entitled to the use of land, and any adjustment that denies this equal right to the use of land is morally wrong. ... read the whole article

Wealth and Want
... because democracy alone is not enough to produce widely shared prosperity.
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