All cannot share alike the bounties of nature.

Were there no established administration of property, every man would be obliged to guard with force his little store.

Selfishness would be triumphant.

The subjects of contention would be perpetual.

Every individual mind would be under a constant anxiety about corporal support, and not a single intellect would be left free to expatiate in the field of thought.
How little Mr Godwin has turned the attention of his penetrating mind to the real state of man on earth will sufficiently appear from the manner in which he endeavours to remove the difficulty of an overcharged population.