Lay hold who will, or who can, of the sun's rays, the passing breeze, or the sea's billows; he has my consent, and my pardon for his bad intentions.

But let any living man dare to change his right of territorial possession into the right of property, and I will declare war upon him, and wage it to the death! M.Ch.

Comte's argument disproves his position.

"Among the things necessary to the preservation of life," he says, "there are some which exist in such large quantities that they are inexhaustible; others which exist in lesser quantities, and can satisfy the wants of only a certain number of persons.

The former are called COMMON, the latter PRIVATE." This reasoning is not strictly logical.