Neither does it disprove that everything was not made for the benefit of all; it only proves that the strong will take advantage of the weak, which is very natural." "Oh! you grant that to be very natural.

Well, Mr Easy, I am glad to perceive that we are of one mind, and I trust we shall continue so.
You'll observe that I and my keepers being three, we are the strong party in this instance, and admitting your argument, that the fish are as much yours as mine, still I take advantage of my strength to repossess myself of them, which is, as you say, very natural--James, take those fish." "If you please," interrupted Jack, "we will argue that point--" "Not at all; I will act according to your own arguments--I have the fish, but I now mean to have more--that fishing-rod is as much mine as yours, and being the stronger party I will take possession of it.
James, William, take that fishing-rod,--it is ours." "I presume you will first allow me to observe," replied Jack, "that although I have expressed my opinion that the earth and the animals on it were made for us all, that I never yet have asserted, that what a man creates by himself, or has created for him for a consideration, is not his own property." "I beg your pardon; the trees that that rod was made from were made for us all, and if you, or any one for you, have thought proper to make it into a rod, it is no more my fault than it is that I have been feeding the fish, with the supposition that they were my own.

Everything being common, and it being but natural that the strong should take advantage of the weak, I must take that rod as my property, until I am dispossessed by one more powerful.

Moreover, being the stronger party, and having possession of this land, which you say does not belong to me more than to you--I also shall direct my keepers to see you off this property.

James, take the rod--see Mr Easy over the park palings.