Nature has not herself divided the good things of the earth between individual men, and this is the source of all wrangling and quarreling among them!

— PROF. ZACHARIA, of Heidelberg, Vierzig Bucher von Staate (1841),

Book XXI., Part I, Division I., Sec. 2, p. 146.

Entire, from sea to mountain-top, appears Our tiny earth, which makes us all so fierce.

— DANTE, Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto XXII.