id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195734 Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI) Quadragesimo anno, encyclical letter on reconstructing the social order 1942 .txt text/plain 21166 681 55 Moreover, Leo XIII wisely taught “that God has left the limits of private possessions to be fixed by the industry of men and institutions of peoples/’ 82 That history proves ownership, like other elements of social life, to be not absolutely unchanging, We once declared as follows: “What divers forms has property had, from that primitive form among rude and savage peoples, which may be observed in some places even in our time, to the form of possession in the patriarchal age; and so further to the various forms under tyranny (We are using the word tyranny in its classical sense) ; and then through the feudal and monarchial forms down to the various types which are to be found in more recent times.” If this is done, that most important division of social life, namely, economic activity, cannot fail likewise to return to right and sound order. cache/_005195734.txt txt/_005195734.txt