 | 1983 - 440 Seiten
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 | United States. Indian Claims Commission - 1979 - 160 Seiten
...1817, President James Monroe said: "The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest numbers of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have...than is necessary for their own support and comfort." The frontiersmen had sounded this theme for two centuries, and Monroe, in the tradition of Jefferson,... | |
 | Lee A. Jacobus - 1982 - 712 Seiten
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 | Michael D. Green - 1982 - 258 Seiten
...mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable," President Monroe informed Congress, "and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from...others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort."4 Excited by the prospect of training Native people in plow agriculture, an achievement which,... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - 1985 - 148 Seiten
...compatible with the progress and just claims of civilized life, and must yield to it." He told Congress that "the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...than is necessary for their own support and comfort." Monroe to Andrew Jackson, October 5, 1817, Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, ed. John Spencer Bassett,... | |
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The hunter state can exist only in the vast uncultivated desert. It yields to the more dense and compact form and greater force of civilized population ; and of right it ought to yield, for the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number... 
