‎ en have a right to their
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‎Natural Reason ‎preservation, things that Nature
‎affords to their subsistence
‎ od has given the Earth to
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‎Revelation
‎Mankind in common ‎have a Property in any thing?
‎ obody has originally a private
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‎dominion in any of them in their
‎natural state
‎ he Earth and all that is therein,
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‎to Mankind in common ‎ eing given for the use of Men,
B ‎ ruit must be his = a part of him =
‎there must of necessity be a
‎means to appropriate them before
‎they can be of any use
‎ abour of his Body and the Work
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‎of his Hands, are properly his
‎ very man has a property in his
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‎own Person, nobody has any right
‎to but himself
‎ 44. MAN, MASTER OF HIMSELF and
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‎PROPRIETOR of his OWN PERSON and the
‎ACTIONS or LABOUR of it
‎OBJECTION ‎NOT SO
‎Chap. V: of Property
I‎ f gathering makes a right then ‎ he same Law of Nature that does
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‎anyone may ingross as much as ‎by this means give us property,
‎he will ‎does also BOUND that Property
‎CHIEF MATTER OF PROPERTY
‎ S MUCH LAND AS A MAN TILLS,
A ‎QUARRELSOM and CONTENTIOUS
‎PLANTS, IMPROVES, CULTIVATES,
‎LAND ‎Acquired as the former
‎AND CAN USE THE PRODUCT OF,
‎so much is HIS PROPERTY
‎ ETTLED THE PROPERTY BY POSITIVE
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‎AGREEMENT
‎ ater COMMUNITIES regulated the
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‎LABOUR ‎gave a RIGHT OF PROPERTY ‎PROPERTIES of the private men, BY
‎COMPACT AND AGREEMENT
I‎ f they are not CONSUMED BY USE, will
‎DECAY and PERISH of themselves
‎ he greatest part of the things really useful
T ‎JUST PROPERTY NO LYING IN THE
‎for the life of men, THINGS OF SHORT
‎DURATION
I‎ f someone bartered away PLUMBS for
‎NUTS that would last good for a year, he did
‎NO INJURY
‎MONEY
I‎ n the beginning ALL THE WORLD WAS
‎AMERICA
‎ nly one Universal Monarch
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‎God gave the World to Adam
‎should have any Property
‎ o show how Men might come to
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‎have a property in several parts of
‎that which God gave to Mankind
‎in common, without any express
‎Compact of all the Commoners
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‎another can no longer have any ‎ ithout Property, the Common is
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‎right to it, before it can do him ‎of no use
‎any good for the support of his life
‎ RIGINAL LAW OF NATURE FOR
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‎THE BEGINNING OF PROPERTY
‎ hatsoever then he removes out
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‎of the State that Nature has ‎other men
‎provided, and left it in, he has ‎THE SUFFICIENCY PROVISO
‎mixed his Labour with and joined
‎ o man but he can have a right to what is
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‎something that is his own, and ‎once joined to, AT LEAST WHERE THERE IS
‎thereby makes it his Property ‎ENOUGH, AND AS GOOD LEFT IN COMMON
‎FOR OTHERS
I‎ f the first gathering of food made
‎it not his, nothing else could.
‎ abour being the unquestionable
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‎Property of the Labourer, no man ‎ abour put a distinction between
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‎but he can have a right to what ‎them and common ‎turfs my servant has cut, the ore i
‎that is once is joined to, at least ‎ dded something to them more
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‎have a right to them in common
‎where there is enough, and as ‎than nature
‎with others, become my Property,
‎good left in common for others
I‎ f Consent of all men were ‎without the assignation or consent
‎necessary, Man had starved ‎of anybody
‎ as IN HIMSELF the GREAT FOUNDATION
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‎OF PROPERTY
‎ EVELATION AND REASON: God
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‎has given us all things richly. How
‎far? TO ENJOY
‎THE SPOILATION PROVISO
‎ o Mans Labour could subdue, or
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‎ HE MEASURE OF PROPERTY: As
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‎much as anyone can make use of ‎ or could his enjoyment consume more
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‎to any advantage of life before it ‎than a small part
‎spoils ‎ HE SAME RULE OF PROPRIETY would hold
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‎still in the World, without straining
‎ 36. This measure did confine every Man's
§ ‎anybody, since there is Land enough had
‎POSSESSION, to a very moderate proportion ‎not the INVENTION OF MONEY, introduced
‎by CONSENT LARGER POSSESSIONS and a
‎RIGHT to them
‎ rovisions of produced by one acre of
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‎inclosed and cultivated land, ten times more
‎than those yielded lying waist in common
‎ 37. HE WHO APPROPRIATES LAND to
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‎ y his Labour, INCLOSE it from
B ‎himself by his labour, does not lessen but ‎ HE IMPROVEMENT OF LABOUR MAKES
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‎the Common ‎INCREASE the COMMON STOCK OF ‎THE FAR GREATER PART OF THE VALUE
‎MANKIND
‎ e that incloses ten acres, give ninety acres
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‎to Mankind ‎well cultivated land in Devonshire
‎ 34. GOD gave the WORLD to the use of the
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‎Industrious and the RATIONAL, not the
‎FANCY or COVETOUSNESS of the
‎ OD and HIS REASON
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‎ ECESSARILY INTRODUCES
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‎commanded him to subdue the
‎PRIVATE POSSESIONS
‎Earth
‎ 37. By commanding to subdue,
§ ‎ ondition of Human Life requires
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‎gave permission to appropriate ‎labour and materials to work on
I‎ f they PERISHED in his possession without
‎ O PREJUDICE to other man: still
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‎NO RIGHT, farther than HIS USE
‎enough and as good left ‎common LAW OF NATURE, and was LIABLE
‎TO BE PUNISHED
‎ HE EXCEEDING OF THE BOUNDS OF HIS
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‎LARGENESS OF HIS POSSESSION; BUT THE ‎ y MUTUAL CONSENT would take in
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‎PERISHING OF ANYTHING USELESLY IN IT ‎exchange for the truly useful, but perishable
I‎ f he would give the NUTS for PIECES OF ‎supports of life
‎METAL, or SHELLS, and keep those by him ‎ e might heap up as much of these durable
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‎And thus CAME IN THE USE OF MONEY ‎ HE INVENTION OF MONEY gave them the
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‎ALL HIS LIFE, he invaded NOT the RIGHTS ‎things as he pleased
‎opportunity to continue and enlarge them
‎OF OTHERS
‎ ifferent degrees of INDUSTRY, give men
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‎POSSESIONS IN DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS ‎ here there is not something both lasting
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‎and scarce, there Men will not be apt to
‎enlarge their Possessions of Land