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Property (n.) would ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠have no reason to exist where I need only stretch out my hand to something equally good: why call this thing MINE?

Property (n.) rests ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on distinctions, mine and yours, that uninstructed nature never made; things are of themselves foreign to us, and only the interests of society tie them to us.

Property (n.) examined ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like any object of superstition looks just as whimsical: this tree's fruit I may eat, another's ten paces off it is a crime to touch.

Property (n.) by ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠alluvion: land torn from one bank and thrown on another does not become the new owner's until trees and plants have spread their roots into both — before that, the thought does not join them.

Property (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠land or houses, traced back from hand to hand, must at some point have been founded on fraud and injustice — so society forbids the inquiry.