ABSTRACT
As direct deductions from the formula of justice, the right of each man to the use of unshackled limbs, and the right to move from place to place without hindrance, are almost too obvious to need specifying. The growing influence of the trading classes was shown by the concession of liberty of journeying to foreign merchants. And then when, after another hundred years, the attachment of the serf to the soil, gradually weakened, had been broken, the fully free labourer acquired the right of unhindered locomotion. Out of primitive unorganized groups, or groups of which the organization is very slight, the progress to large and organized groups is effected by war. Trespass on liberty as is required to preserve liberty, has a quasi-ethical warrant.
