How do you expect me to distinguish you in space in the midst of this multitude ?" If man is indistinguishable, he is nothing.

Now, he can be distinguished, individualized, only through a devotion of certain things to his use,--such as his body, his faculties, and the tools which he uses.

"Hence," says M.Leroux, "the necessity of appropriation;" in short, property.
But property on what condition?
Here M.Leroux, after having condemned communism, denounces in its turn the right of domain.

His whole doctrine can be summed up in this single proposition,--_Man may be made by property a slave or a despot by turns_.
That posited, if we ask M.Leroux to tell us under what system of property man will be neither a slave nor a despot, but free, just, and a citizen, M.Leroux replies in the third volume of his work on "Humanity:"-- "There are three ways of destroying man's communion with his fellows and with the universe:...

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