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What is Property?

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These personalities do not vary, and we might say that a single ego governs them all.

The labors which animals perform, whether alone or in society, are exact reproductions of their character.

Just as the swarm of bees is composed of individual bees, alike in nature and equal in value, so the honeycomb is formed of individual cells, constantly and invariably repeated.
But man's intelligence, fitted for his social destiny and his personal needs, is of a very different composition, and therefore gives rise to a wonderful variety of human wills.

In the bee, the will is constant and uniform, because the instinct which guides it is invariable, and constitutes the animal's whole life and nature.

In man, talent varies, and the mind wavers; consequently, his will is multiform and vague.


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