[232] Em. de Laveleye, De la propriété, p. 105.
[233] Id., La propriété collective, in the Revue de Belgique, 1886, pp. 2-24 of the reprint.
[234] Em. de Laveleye, De la propriété, p. 152.
[235] Ibidem, p. 161.
[236] Save in the exceptional case described by Diodorus in the Lipari islands.
[237] This is shewn by Heraclides of Pontus in the Fragmenta hist. græc., of Didot, vol. II., p. 211; and by Plutarch, Life of Agis, 5. To this can be added the other texts cited in my Étude sur la propriété à Sparte, 1880. See also the work of M. Claudio Jannet.
[238] In the same way he cites Ælian, V. 9, as saying that the inhabitants of Locri and Rhegium cultivated the land in common. What Ælian says is that “the cities of Locri and Rhegium have made a treaty which permits the inhabitants of the one town to settle on the territory of the other.” Of common cultivation there is not a word. These authorities are given in the article by M. de Laveleye, in Revue de Belgique, 1886, pp. 9 et seq. of the reprint.
[239] De la propriété et de ses formes primitives, p. 201.
[240] La propriété collective du sol, in the Revue de Belgique, 1886. He repeats the argument in the Revue socialiste, 1888, p. 452, and in the Revue d’économie politique, July, 1888.
[241] Isaac Taylor, in the Contemporary Review, Dec., 1886, referred to by M. de Laveleye.