Thus, in the phrase, IRON ACQUIRES THE PROPERTY OF A MAGNET, the word PROPERTY does not convey the same idea that it does in this one: _I HAVE ACQUIRED THIS MAGNET AS MY PROPERTY_.

To tell a poor man that he HAS property because he HAS arms and legs,--that the hunger from which he suffers, and his power to sleep in the open air are his property,--is to play upon words, and to add insult to injury.
"The sole basis of the idea of property is the idea of personality.

As soon as property is born at all, it is born, of necessity, in all its fulness.

As soon as an individual knows HIMSELF,--his moral personality, his capacities of enjoyment, suffering, and action,--he necessarily sees also that this SELF is exclusive proprietor of the body in which it dwells, its organs, their powers, faculties, &c....

Inasmuch as artificial and conventional property exists, there must be natural property also; for nothing can exist in art without its counterpart in Nature." We ought to admire the honesty and judgment of philosophers! Man has properties; that is, in the first acceptation of the term, faculties.