happy birthday for an optimist

[Ian Murray]

"From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership
of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as private
ownership of one man by another. Even a whole society, a nation, or even all
simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the
globe. They are only its possessors, its usufructuaries, and, like boni
patres familias, they must hand it down to succeeding generations in an
improved condition."