In short, all rent received (nominally as damages, but really as payment for a loan) is an act of property,--a robbery.
HISTORICAL COMMENT .-- The tax which a victorious nation levies upon a conquered nation is genuine farm-rent.

The seigniorial rights abolished by the Revolution of 1789,--tithes, mortmain, statute-labor, &c.,--were different forms of the rights of property; and they who under the titles of nobles, seigneurs, prebendaries, &c.

enjoyed these rights, were neither more nor less than proprietors.

To defend property to-day is to condemn the Revolution.
SECOND PROPOSITION.
Property is impossible because wherever it exists Production costs more than it is worth.
The preceding proposition was legislative in its nature; this one is economical.

It serves to prove that property, which originates in violence, results in waste.
"Production," says Say, "is exchange on a large scale.