Consequently, property cannot be established by prescription.

This is so certain and so true, that on it rests the maxim that in the matter of prescription a violation of right goes for nothing.
But I should be recreant to my method, and the reader would have the right to accuse me of charlatanism and bad faith, if I had nothing further to advance concerning prescription.

I showed, in the first place, that appropriation of land is illegal; and that, supposing it to be legal, it must be accompanied by equality of property.

I have shown, in the second place, that universal consent proves nothing in favor of property; and that, if it proves any thing, it proves equality of property.

I have yet to show that prescription, if admissible at all, presupposes equality of property.
This demonstration will be neither long nor difficult.