If, then, the laborer is obliged by the right of property to pay a rent to the proprietor, the proprietor is obliged by the same right to pay the same amount of rent to the laborer; and, since their rights balance each other, the difference between them is zero.
_Scholium_ .-- If farm-rent is only a fraction of the supposed product of the proprietor, whatever the amount and value of the property, the same is true in the case of a large number of small and distinct proprietors.
For, although one man may use the property of each separately, he cannot use the property of all at the same time.
To sum up.

The right of increase, which can exist only within very narrow limits, defined by the laws of production, is annihilated by the right of occupancy.

Now, without the right of increase, there is no property.

Then property is impossible.
FOURTH PROPOSITION.
Property is impossible, because it is Homicide.
If the right of increase could be subjected to the laws of reason and justice, it would be reduced to an indemnity or reward whose MAXIMUM never could exceed, for a single laborer, a certain fraction of that which he is capable of producing.

This we have just shown.