He is a proprietor.
Reciprocally, the sluggard, or the rake, who, without performing any social task, enjoys like others--and often more than others--the products of society, should be proceeded against as a thief and a parasite.

We owe it to ourselves to give him nothing; but, since he must live, to put him under supervision, and compel him to labor.
Sociability is the attraction felt by sentient beings for each other.
Justice is this same attraction, accompanied by thought and knowledge.
But under what general concept, in what category of the understanding, is justice placed?
In the category of equal quantities.

Hence, the ancient definition of justice--_Justum aequale est, injustum inaequale_.
What is it, then, to practise justice?
It is to give equal wealth to each, on condition of equal labor.

It is to act socially.

Our selfishness may complain; there is no escape from evidence and necessity.
What is the right of occupancy?
It is a natural method of dividing the earth, by reducing each laborer's share as fast as new laborers present themselves.