Undated:
That possession even claimed solely by virtue of manifest authority, by, e.g. a family, has been regarded and preserved as inviolable through all other vicissitudes of fortune, would seem explicable only by the fact that the same quality has been granted to property acquired by authority as to that originally appropriated by cultivation of the soil, from which the true force of the concept of property might be concluded to be that of a sacred right. — Great misrepresentation — gradually introduced through habit.