Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Meaning of Property
If we begin at the begmnmg and affirm what no man is likely to deny, namely that goods are indispensable to the general welfare, - and I mean by goods all those wares and commodities which conduce to the comfort and happiness of men, and leave aside for the moment all notions of property, we are brought face to face with the question, how shall these goods be provided?
They are not natural in the sense that nature produces them ready for man's enjoyment. Sav ages may fiourish upon the spontaneous offerings of nature, but the civilized man cannot pluck food from an uncultivated field nor clothe him self with the leaves of the forest; he must work in order to live. The wealth we modems need is artificial wealth and must be produced by labor.
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