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Casado's PhD on Copyright , Madrid (1859)

Source: Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; D 51302

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Casado's PhD on Copyright , Madrid (1859), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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            Chapter 1 Page 2 of 13 total

                        
            
            
            
            
            
                  Your Excellency and Most Illustrious Sir,
            
            
            Property, born with man, is the eminently
            constitutive aspect of his social condition.
            Every community, every lawmakers in any
            form of government, and therefore the
            Holy Tribune of the free city of Catones, as the
            former conqueror (1), who exclaimed: “I have
            subjected the world; but I am subjected to
            God's will", have unanimously recognized
            this truth as being indisputable; they have all
            guaranteed it within the varying limits of
            their different domination. And it could not
            be otherwise. You will season
            the fruits of the land with the sweat from
            your brows; you will be the prey of infinite evil
            that will overwhelm your existence and
            your descendants as of today
      
            (1) Alexander the Great.


    

                        
            
            
            
            
            
                  Excmo. é Ilmo. Señor:
            
            
            La propiedad, nacida con el hombre, es el ele-
            mento eminentemente constitutiva de su estado so-
            cial. Todos los pueblos, todos los legisladores bajo
            cualquier forma de gobierno, así el sagrado tri-
            buno de la libre ciudad de los Catones, como el
            antiguo conquistador (1), que esclamaba: “He suje-
            tado al mundo; pero yo estoy sujeto á la vo-
            luntad de Dios, unánimes han reconocido esta
            verdad como inconcusa; todos la han garantido en
            los diferentes límites de su diversa dominacion.
            Y no podia ser de otra manera. Con el sudor de tu
            rostro sazonarás los frutos de la tierra; presa serás
            de los infinitos males que agobiaran desde hoy
            vuestra existencia y de vuestros descendientes,

            (1) Alejandro el Grande.


    

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