Let it be sufficient to remedy the evil by putting them in a condition of descending again to the community by the quiet means of apportioning them among all the heirs and heiresses of those families.
Paine proposes a remedy for the accumulation of vast estates by advocating for their division among all heirs, returning wealth to the community.
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