[58] “I do not think”, says Aristotle, “that property ought to be common”. [_The Politics_, bk. VII, ch. 10]. On the other place he argues that there are two things which principally inspire mankind with care and affection, namely, the sense of what is one’s own, and exclusive possession. [_The Politics_, bk. II, ch. IV] [59] In aeltester Zeit das Ackerland gemeinschaftlich, wahrscheinlich nach den einzelnen Geschlechtsgenossenschaften bestellt und erst der Ertrag unter die einzelnen dem Geschlecht angehoerigen Haeuser vertheilt ward ... erst spaeter das Land unter die Buerger zu Sondereigenthum aufgetheilt ward. [_Roemische Geschichte_, 2te Auflage, 1856, bd. I, st. 171-72.] [60] Tum [zur Zeit des Romulus] erat res in pecore et locorum possessionibus, ex quo pecuniosi et locupletos vocabantur.--[Numa] primum agros, quos bello Romulus ceperat, divisit viritim civibus. [Cited by Mommsen from _De Republica_, 2, 9, 14.] [61] _Du Caractere Collectif des Premieres Propriétés Immobilieres_, 1872. [62] _De la Propriété et de ses Formese Primitives_, 1874. [English tr. 1878]. [63] _L’Evolution de la Propriété_, 1888. [English translation, 1892]. [64] _Ancient Law_, ch. VIII. London, 1861. [65] Especially P. Lafargue, _The Evolution of Property_, 1908. [66] On this Pope, Professor P. Villari says: “One of his strongest passions was an insatiable greed for gold ... he accumulated the immense fortune that served to raise him to the papacy”.... See _Storia di Girolamo Savonarola e de’ suvi tempi_, 1859. English by Ll. Villari, 1909, ch. IX, 152. [67] _The Rights of Property_, by A. Thiers, London, 1848. [68] _The Origin of Property in Land_, by F. de Coulanges. English translation, London, 1891. [69] On the private property during the French Revolution see _Le Socialisme et la Revolution Francaise_, par Dr. A. Lichtenberg, Paris, 1899, ch. VII, 1. Another valuable book on this subject is _The French Revolution and Modern French Socialism_, by Dr. J. B. Peixotto, New York, 1901, ch. I, 4; ch. III, 3; and ch. VI, 2. [70] See _Progress and Property_, by H. George, 1879, bk. VII-VIII. Tolstoy mentioned George in several of his political articles, and wrote _Two Letters on Henry George_, 1893. In Wiener’s translations of the Complete Works of Count Tolstoy, these _Two Letters_ are published in volume XXIII, pp. 396-401. [71] A parallel drawn between George’s and Tolstoy’s theory of property may be found in C. B. Fillebrown, _The A B C of Taxation_, App. B. pp. 168-170. [New York, 1909].