We hold: That—
This world is the creation of God.
The men brought into it for the brief period
of their earthly lives are the equal creatures of his
bounty, the equal subjects of his provident
care.
By his constitution man is beset by physical wants, on
the satisfaction of which depend not only the maintenance
of his physical life but also the development of his
intellectual and spiritual life.
God has made the satisfaction of these wants dependent
on man’s own exertions, giving him the power and
laying on him the injunction to labor — a power
that of itself raises him far above the brute, since we
may reverently say that it enables him to become as it
were a helper in the creative work.
God has not put on man the task of making bricks
without straw. With the need for labor and the power to
labor he has also given to man the material for labor.
This material is land — man physically being a land
animal, who can live only on and from land, and can use
other elements, such as air, sunshine and water, only by
the use of land.
Being the equal creatures of the Creator, equally
entitled under his providence to live their lives and
satisfy their needs, men are equally entitled to the use
of land, and any adjustment that denies this equal use of
land is morally wrong. ... read the whole
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