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What is Property?

CHAPTER IV
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Nature has given to every man but one mind, one heart, one will.
Property, granting to one individual a plurality of votes, supposes him to have a plurality of minds.
7.

All consumption which is not reproductive of utility is destruction.
Property, whether it consumes or hoards or capitalizes, is productive of INUTILITY,--the cause of sterility and death.
8.

The satisfaction of a natural right always gives rise to an equation; in other words, the right to a thing is necessarily balanced by the possession of the thing.

Thus, between the right to liberty and the condition of a free man there is a balance, an equation; between the right to be a father and paternity, an equation; between the right to security and the social guarantee, an equation.

But between the right of increase and the receipt of this increase there is never an equation; for every new increase carries with it the right to another, the latter to a third, and so on for ever.


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