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What is Property?

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It becomes sacred, like himself.

It is impossible to take it without doing violence to his liberty, or to remove it without rashly invading his person.

Diogenes did but express this truth of intuition, when he said: 'Stand out of my light!'" Very good! but would the prince of cynics, the very personal and very haughty Diogenes, have had the right to charge another cynic, as rent for this same place in the sunshine, a bone for twenty-four hours of possession?
It is that which constitutes the proprietor; it is that which you fail to justify.

In reasoning from the human personality and individuality to the right of property, you unconsciously construct a syllogism in which the conclusion includes more than the premises, contrary to the rules laid down by Aristotle.

The individuality of the human person proves INDIVIDUAL POSSESSION, originally called _proprietas_, in opposition to collective possession, _communio_.
It gives birth to the distinction between THINE and MINE, true signs of equality, not, by any means, of subordination.


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