is to violate the law of progress, and to forget that a science which moves is a science which grows." [64] Now, the only mutable and progressive portion of law, as we have already seen, is that which concerns property.

If, then, you ask what reforms are to be introduced into the right of property?
M.Troplong makes no reply; what progress is to be hoped for?
no reply; what is to be the destiny of property in case of universal association?
no reply; what is the absolute and what the contingent, what the true and what the false, in property?
no reply.

M.Troplong favors quiescence and _in statu quo_ in regard to property.

What could be more unphilosophical in a progressive philosopher?
Nevertheless, M.Troplong has thought about these things.

"There are," he says, "many weak points and antiquated ideas in the doctrines of modern authors concerning property: witness the works of MM.