While in the university he had that year read Spencer's Social Statics, and Spencer's reasoning bearing on private ownership of land produced a strong impression on him, especially because he was himself the son of a landed proprietress.

那年在大学期间，他读了斯宾塞的《社会静力学》，斯宾塞对土地私有制的推论给他留下了深刻的印象，尤其是因为他本人是一个有地主的儿子。

The other alternative — to reject all the arguments against private ownership of land which he gathered from Spencer's Social Statics, and of which he found confirmation in the works of Henry George — he could follow even less.

另一种选择——拒绝他从斯宾塞的《社会静力学》中收集到的所有反对土地私有制的论点，并在亨利·乔治的著作中找到了证实——他更不可能遵循。