That's what you mean, isn't it, by giving me the negative side of your good conditions ?" "Yes," he said, "it was so hard, that those who habitually acted fairly to their neighbours were celebrated as saints and heroes, and were looked up to with the greatest reverence." "While they were alive ?" said I.
"No," said he, "after they were dead." "But as to these days," I said; "you don't mean to tell me that no one ever transgresses this habit of good fellowship ?" "Certainly not," said Hammond, "but when the transgressions occur, everybody, transgressors and all, know them for what they are; the errors of friends, not the habitual actions of persons driven into enmity against society." "I see," said I; "you mean that you have no 'criminal' classes." "How could we have them," said he, "since there is no rich class to breed enemies against the state by means of the injustice of the state ?" Said I: "I thought that I understood from something that fell from you a little while ago that you had abolished civil law.

Is that so, literally ?" "It abolished itself, my friend," said he.

"As I said before, the civil law-courts were upheld for the defence of private property; for nobody ever pretended that it was possible to make people act fairly to each other by means of brute force.

Well, private property being abolished, all the laws and all the legal 'crimes' which it had manufactured of course came to an end.

Thou shalt not steal, had to be translated into, Thou shalt work in order to live happily.