No excess is good, and therefore too great a proportion of landed property may be held officially for life; but it does not seem to me of material injury to any common wealth that there should exist some estates that have a chance of being acquired by other means than the previous acquisition of money.
Burke discusses the potential benefits of holding some estates through means other than monetary acquisition.
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