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CONTENTS.
  1. Chapter XII. Of the Law of the Increase of Production from Land.
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  3. § 1.
    The limited quantity and limited productiveness of land, the real limits to production
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    220
  4. 2.
    The law of production from the soil, a law of diminishing return in proportion to the increased application of labour and capital
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    221
  5. 3.
    Antagonist principle to the law of diminishing return; the progress of improvements in production
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    226
  6. Chapter XIII. Consequences of the foregoing Laws.
  7. § 1.
    Remedies when the limit to production is the weakness of the principle of accumulation
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    236
  8. 2.
    Necessity of restraining population not confined to a state of inequality of property
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    237
  9. 3.
    —nor superseded by free trade in food
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  10. 4.
    —nor in general by emigration
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  11. BOOK II. DISTRIBUTION. Chapter I. Of Property.
  12. § 1.
    Introductory remarks
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    249
  13. 2.
    Statement of the question
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    251
  14. 3.
    Examination of Communism
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    254
  15. 4.
    —of St. Simonism and Fourierism
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    263
  16. Chapter II. The same subject continued.
  17. § 1.
    The institution of property implies freedom of acquisition by contract
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    270
  18. 2.
    —the validity of prescription
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    272
  19. 3.
    —the power of bequest, but not the right of inheritance. Question of inheritance examined
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