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~Jr between the teachers and their respective congre ..
gations. But this danger, if it exist, may be provided
against with equal effect, by converting the
.rtideci of faith into articles of peace.
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CHAPTER
1VILLS.
XXIII •
T I-IE fundamental question upon this subject
is, whether "Tills_ are of natural or of ad,re~~_it~Qus
right'?-that is;-,~-h_e1her t_~-~ -_ right _QJ-_alr:e~tin~LJhe
d~Spo3itio~'- _(If _ pr~pg.rty afte~·
Illan 1n a S~qtc or nature, 311J b}" the law of l1ature,
his _death 1:>elong~ _ to~ __
or \,:he-rher j-t -bzgi,-c!i -him entirely" -5y the -posiilve
regutatio~i.9D~- co~ntr-y r.1e :!ive~ _ml -- - . -
f TIie- immediate produce of each man's personal
labollr, as ,tiC tool~:; \\-eapons, and -utensjls, which
he lnanuractures, thete!lt or hut he builds, and per ...
Ilaps the flocks and llerds \\-hicll l1e breeds and rears,
are as much his O\\~ll as tl1e labour was which he
employed upon them, that is, are his property naturally
and absolutely; and consequently he may
give or leaye them to whom he pleases, there being
llDthing to limit the continuance of his right, or to
l·e~train the alienation of it. I
~ .But every other speciEs of property, especially
llroperty in land, stal1ds upon a different foundation.!
,V e have seen in the Chapter upon Property, that,
in a . state _Q.L_}~atl!re, a man's right to a parrictl1at'
-spot or:gr9~~d_ a_ri~s from his usi~g)t~ an~. hJs w'!J1t- .
l~git; cpnsequently~ith -tll~. __ us~£i\V~~t; so
that at his u{.'ath the esfite re\'crts to the communi.
ty, '!.xithotlt any rctiard to the last owner's will, 01"
e\~en any preference of his family, farther than as
thcy become the first occupiers alter hi~, and sucs.:ccd
to the same \vant and use.
Morcovcr, as natural rights cannot, like rights
"reatcd bv act of pJrliamcnt .. e:x~irf~ at the end of a