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3400. GENERATIONS, The Earth and.—

Every generation comes equally, by the laws
of the Creator of the world, to the free possession
of the earth which He made for their subsistence,
unincumbered by their predecessors,
who, like, them, were but tenants for life.—
To John Taylor. Washington ed. vi, 605. Ford ed., x, 28.
(M. May. 1816)