text:  When Maurocordatos wrote his memorable declaration "that every spot where wild herbs fit for the pasturage of cattle grow is national property and that the Greek government recognises no individual property in the soil except the exclusive right of cultivation " he only in deference to the Bavarian policy of the time which wished to copy Mohammed Ali's administration in Egypt caricatured a misconception of the right of property equally strong in every Greek whether he be the oppressor or the oppressed