Harriet Martineau Quotes
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau's Autobiography. Vol. 2, Smith, Elder & Co., 1877, p. 225.
Use included renting it. What he opposed was simply holding land when whites were driving Indians off their lands because all the unused land outside of the reservation was owned by someone and the asking price was very high. Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
The Bushmen are of the indigenous people of Botswana who have only had extended contact with the larger world recently.
See {638124} for how this Biblical passage evolved into a concept of property ownership
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote many books and essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic and feminine perspective, translated works by Auguste Comte, and earned enough to support herself by writing, a rare feat for a woman of her period. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed reading her and invited her to her coronation in 1838. Martineau said of her approach, "One must focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions." She believed thorough analysis was needed to understand women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant said "as a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."
