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CHAPTER III.
THE IDEA OF LOCAL PROXIMITY AND THE
PRIMITIVE celt's NOTION OF PROPERTY :
THE USE FOR THIS PURPOSE OF THE
PREPOSITION AIG, AT.
To the student of social ethics that may
seem a transition not less immoral than far
fetched whereby this flint knife, kept here
beside me, becomes iiiy knife, or that one,
farther away, may if you like, because it is
not so handy to me, become thy property,
or yonder" one, still farther off, and indif-
ferent to me and to you, may lie there and
become Ids property who may choose to
take it. The tie which would thus con-
stitute the connection of owner and pro-
perty, however much it may resemble the