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Quotation from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
“Thus in the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now; for no such thing as money was any where known”
Second Treatise of Government, Ch. V, §49
Locke uses America as an image of the pre-monetary state of nature, a passage central to debates about imperial land claims.
Citation: "Thus in the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now; for no such thing as money was any where known" — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Ch. V, §49. (id second-treatise-of-government-q6)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
