ABSTRACT
The notion of property could be deduced from the very notion of human activity. We have only to analyse this activity to discover why man is and must be an owner of property. "Nothing is implied in property" says Stuart Mill "but the right of each to his own faculties, to what he can produce by them, and to whatever he can get for them in a fair market." In reducing property to terms of labour, we admit that the value of things derives from objective and impersonal causes. The simplest and most radical answer would be that this bond could be resolved into elements and this means there was some element in the nature of man, some constitutional peculiarity which logically implied the allocation and appropriation of certain things. The human race is the ideal power of the soil. This right of ownership can only become reality through individuals.
