The infinite is his aim, the indefinite his right." Few of my readers would understand these hierophantic words, were I to leave them unexplained.

M.Leroux means, by this magnificent formula, that humanity is a single immense society, which, in its collective unity, represents the infinite; that every nation, every tribe, every commune, and every citizen are, in different degrees, fragments or finite members of the infinite society, the evil in which results solely from individualism and privilege,--in other words, from the subordination of the infinite to the finite; finally, that, to attain humanity's end and aim, each part has a right to an indefinitely progressive development.
"All the evils which afflict the human race arise from caste.

The family is a blessing; the family caste (the nobility) is an evil.

Country is a blessing; the country caste (supreme, domineering, conquering) is an evil; property (individual possession) is a blessing; the property caste (the domain of property of Pothier, Toullier, Troplong, &c.) is an evil." Thus, according to M.Leroux, there is property and property,--the one good, the other bad.

Now, as it is proper to call different things by different names, if we keep the name "property" for the former, we must call the latter robbery, rapine, brigandage.