No body can deny but the nourishment is his.

I ask then, when did they begin to be his?
when he digested?
or when he eat?
or when he boiled?
or when he brought them home?
or when he picked them up?
and it is plain, if the first gathering made them not his, nothing else could.

That labour put a distinction between them and common: that added something to them more than nature, the common mother of all, had done; and so they became his private right.

And will any one say, he had no right to those acorns or apples, he thus appropriated, because he had not the consent of all mankind to make them his?
Was it a robbery thus to assume to himself what belonged to all in common?
If such a consent as that was necessary, man had starved, notwithstanding the plenty God had given him.

We see in commons, which remain so by compact, that it is the taking any part of what is common, and removing it out of the state nature leaves it in, which begins the property; without which the common is of no use.