 | Albert Borgmann - 1992 - 181 pages
...to reward and respect. God, Locke says (he might as well have said nature or reason), gave the world "to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour...covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious." As we understand him, Locke is speaking of rugged individuals, finding fulfillment in the conquest... | |
 | James Tully - 1993 - 354 pages
...rather that they should 'draw from it' the 'greatest conveniences of life'. Accordingly, he 'gave it to the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it;)' (34). Amerindians are then said to draw less than one one-hundredth the number of conveniences from... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 pages
...from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational (and Labour...or Covetousness of the Quarrelsome and Contentious. Much remains implicit in Locke's statement of relative capacities and disproportionate rewards. What... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pages
...their benefit, and the greatest Conveniences of Life they were capable to draw from it ... He gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour...Title to it;) not to the Fancy or Covetousness of the Quarrelsom and Contentious.8 The structure of Gay's play already appears as a comic subversion of this... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1994 - 348 pages
...but not to be left uncultivated: God "gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labor was to be his title to it); not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious." It is by the consent of people so situated that government comes into existence and upon which it depends.... | |
 | Graham Alan John Rogers - 1996 - 276 pages
...rather that they should 'draw from it' the 'greatest conveniences of life'. Accordingly, he 'gave it to the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it;}'.21 Amerindians are then said to draw less than one-hundredth of the number of conveniences from... | |
 | Gopal Sreenivasan - 1995 - 173 pages
...depends on his labouring. God gave the world to mankind in common, true, but more precisely, 'He gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour...or Covetousness of the Quarrelsome and Contentious' (II, 34). In normal circumstances, no one has a direct right to meat and drink; everyone who is able-bodied... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 pages
...or by "Injury to any body;"64 rather, "to increase the common stock of mankind."65 For God "gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour...title to it); not to the Fancy or Covetousness of the Quarrelsom and Contentious."66 Locke and the Radical Republicans As Professor Kramnick has pointed... | |
 | Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Preston N. Williams, Shirley J. Roels - 1995 - 1002 pages
...from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to iti; not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious. He that had as good left... | |
 | George K. Yarrow, Piotr Jasiński - 1996 - 522 pages
...from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational, (and labour...his improvement, as was already taken up, needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already improved by another's labour: if he did, it is... | |
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God gave the world to men in common; but since He gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the... 
