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Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.

Henry Sumner Maine

Nobody is at liberty to attack several property and to say at the same time that he values civilisation. The history of the two cannot be disentangled. Civilisation is nothing more than a name for the old order of the Aryan world, dissolved but perpetually re-constituting itself under a vast variety of solvent influences, of which infinitely the most powerful have been those which have, slowly, and in some parts of the world much less perfectly than others, substituted several property for collective ownership.

Henry Sumner Maine

Note: several property refers to what we call private property.