It is for the writers on jurisprudence, henceforth unembarrassed by the false principle of property, to describe the new laws, and bring peace upon earth.

Knowledge and genius they do not lack; the foundation is now laid for them.

[34] I have accomplished my task; property is conquered, never again to arise.

Wherever this work is read and discussed, there will be deposited the germ of death to property; there, sooner or later, privilege and servitude will disappear, and the despotism of will will give place to the reign of reason.

What sophisms, indeed, what prejudices (however obstinate) can stand before the simplicity of the following propositions:-- I.Individual POSSESSION [35] is the condition of social life; five thousand years of property demonstrate it.