Now we know from all history, that unjust appropriation, that every long-continued attempt in one class of men to escape from the necessity of labour imposed on our race, that every infringment of a man's right to use, consume, and enjoy his own produce, has ever been attended with disastrous consequences. It is a violation of a natural law which never passes unpunished.

— Thomas Hodgskin Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827)

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