10/90 A man who should be prohibited from walking in the highways, from resting in the fields, from taking shelter in caves, from lighting fires, from picking berries, from gathering herbs and boiling them in a bit of baked clay,--such a man could not live. Consequently the earth--like water, air, and light--is a primary object of necessity which each has a right to use freely, without infringing another's right. Why, then, is the earth appropriated? Comte's reply is a curious one. Say pretends that it is because it is not FUGITIVE; M.Ch.Comte assures us that it is because it is not INFINITE. |