Now, this right is guaranteed him by his fellows, with whom he makes an agreement to that effect.

One hundred thousand men settle in a large country like France with no inhabitants: each man has a right to 1/100,000 of the land.

If the number of possessors increases, each one's portion diminishes in consequence; so that, if the number of inhabitants rises to thirty-four millions, each one will have a right only to 1/34,000,000.

Now, so regulate the police system and the government, labor, exchange, inheritance, &c., that the means of labor shall be shared by all equally, and that each individual shall be free; and then society will be perfect.
Of all the defenders of property, M.Cousin has gone the farthest.

He has maintained against the economists that labor does not establish the right of property unless preceded by occupation, and against the jurists that the civil law can determine and apply a natural right, but cannot create it.