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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... "
The Library of Original Sources: Advance in knowledge, 1650-1800 - Page 163
by Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907
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Reparations for Slavery: A Reader

Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - 2004 - 368 pages
...on from the statement about conditions of plenty that was quoted a page or two earlier: "He that has as good left for 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, 'tis plain...
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Beyond Gated Politics: Reflections for the Possibility of Democracy

Romand Coles - 331 pages
...whoever worked it, within Locke's familiar limits. Thus Locke concludes that God "gave [the world] to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour...or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious" (34). Although money increases the psychological propensities toward and worldly occasions for conflict,...
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Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest ...

Douglas Deur, Nancy J. Turner - 2005 - 417 pages
...it, it cannot be supposed that 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 it). One of the most revealing examples of European attitudes towards Indigenous occupants of the land is...
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Freedom Reclaimed: Rediscovering the American Vision

John E. Schwarz - 2005 - 278 pages
...good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst."21 Similarly, "he that had as good left for his improvement, as was already taken up, needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already improved by another's labor."22 Through this Lockean...
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Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles and ...

John Locke - 2006 - 366 pages
...Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it;') not to the Fancy or Covetoufnefs of the Quarrelfom and Contentious. He that had as good left for 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, 'tis...
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Individualität und Eigentum: zur Rekonstruktion zweier Grundbegriffe der Moderne

Christian Schmidt - 2006 - 352 pages
...Produkte, wenn Konsumtion und Produktion sich nicht auf den gleichen Körper beziehen. »He that has good left for 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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Justice: A Reader

Michael J. Sandel - 2007 - 428 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, 'tis plain...
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The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents ...

Micheline Ishay - 2007 - 590 pages
...remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational — and labor was to be his title to it — not to the fancy or...his improvement as was already taken up needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already improved by another's labor; if he did, it is plain...
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Anarchism and Authority: A Philosophical Introduction to Classical Anarchism

Paul McLaughlin - 2007 - 220 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. In the case of Locke, then, instrumentalism is founded on an industrial imperative from God (and the...
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Feminist Interpretations of John Locke

Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure - 2010 - 352 pages
...should always remain common and uncultivated [ie unenclosed for commercial agriculture]. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational, (and labour...or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious" (2.34). The executive power of the law of nature, held (presumptively by males, and later transferred...
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