"We have no Right of Property from Nature. When Men were first made, no Boundaries were set to his Possession; Right and Wrong were not known; no Man assumed a Right by Nature, and what was effected was by Power. If we could claim no Right to the Bodies of Animals, we had no Power to destroy. The Sparrow and the Fish of the Sea are in common to all, no Man claims a particular Right to them, therefore has no Power by Nature over them to kill."
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Robert Morris (writer)
(February 1703 – 12 November 1754) was an English architectural theorist, writer, and surveyor active in the eighteenth century. He contributed significantly to the Palladian revival through influential treatises and pattern books such as Lectures on Architecture (1734–1736) and Rural Architecture (1750), which helped disseminate classical design principles in Britain and colonial America. Though few buildings are securely attributed to him, he participated in architectural and surveying work at
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