Property, speaking of it generally, cannot be destroyed The land remains, and the combined results of man's industry are too numerous, too large, and too lasting to become a wholesale prey to man's anger or madness.

Even the elements when out of order can do but little toward perfecting destruction.

A deluge is wanted--or that crash of doom which, whether it is to come or not, is believed by the world to be very distant.

But it is within human power to destroy possession, and redistribute the goods which industry, avarice, or perhaps injustice has congregated.

They who own property are in these days so much stronger than those who have none, that an idea of any such redistribution does not create much alarm among the possessors.
The spirit of communism does not prevail among people who have learned that it is, in truth, easier to earn than to steal.