For let the rich work alone by themselves; and let the poor work together by themselves."[62] With the common ownership and cultivation of land, an end was to be made of all tyranny of man over his fellows.
[Illustration: JOHN HAMPDEN _After the Engraving by G.Houbraken._] "Leave off dominion and lordship one over another; for the whole bulk of mankind are but one living earth.

Leave off imprisoning, whipping, and killing, which are but the actings of the curse.

Let those that have hitherto had no land, and have been forced to rob and steal through poverty; henceforth let them quietly enjoy land to work upon, that everyone may enjoy the benefit of his creation, and eat his own bread with the sweat of his own brow." Winstanley's argument was quite simple: "If any man can say that he makes corn or cattle, he may say, _That is mine_.

But if the Lord made these for the use of His creation, surely then the earth was made by the Lord to be a Common Treasury for all, not a particular treasury for some." Two objections were urged against private property in land: "First, it hath occasioned people to steal from one another.

Secondly, it hath made laws to hang those that did steal.