The laws are framed for the object of reducing the greater part of the people to servitude.
For every offence the punishment is slavery, and the offences are daily artificially increased, that the wealth of the few in human beings may grow with them.

If a man in his hunger steal a loaf, he becomes a slave; that is, it is proclaimed he must make good to the State the injury he has done it, and must work out his trespass.

This is not assessed as the value of the loaf, nor supposed to be confined to the individual from whom it was taken.
The theft is said to damage the State at large, because it corrupts the morality of the commonwealth; it is as if the thief had stolen a loaf, not from one, but from every member of the State.

Restitution must, therefore, be made to all, and the value of the loaf returned in labour a thousandfold.

The thief is the bondsman of the State.