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Excerpt from The Individual and the State: An Essay on Justice; A Thesis Accepted by the Faculty of Cornell University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
From private ownership of an object made by a man, to the appropriation of other things upon which he had impressed his personality, was but a short step easily taken. The tendency to confound the thing made with its maker, was soon extended so as to include not only the ground which he had cleared, and the crops which he had sown, but also the captives whom he had seized during successful forays, the women carried away, and the prisoners made slaves by him. Slaves formed the first species of property capable of indefinite increase. It was not until heavy labor, such as that of agriculture, had to be per formed that Slavery developed when the tilling of the soil had grown in importance, the labor of women was displaced, or supplemented, by that of slaves. With the introduction of Slavery, agriculture became more and more important, and so produced further capital admitting of accumulation and ex change.
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