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What is Property?

CHAPTER IV
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It will always have the blind, the maimed, the insane, and the idiotic.

It can easily support a few sluggards.

At this point, the impossibilities thicken and become complicated.
THIRD PROPOSITION.
Property is impossible, because, with a given capital, Production is proportional to labor, not to property.
To pay a farm-rent of one hundred at the rate of ten per cent.

of the product, the product must be one thousand; that the product may be one thousand, a force of one thousand laborers is needed.

It follows, that in granting a furlough, as we have just done, to our one hundred laborer-proprietors, all of whom had an equal right to lead the life of men of income,--we have placed ourselves in a position where we are unable to pay their revenues.


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