Among savages the conqueror kills the conquered, to obtain an uncontested, if not incontestable, right to game.
Next slavery.

When man learns that he can make the earth fruitful by labor, he makes this division with his brother: "You work and I eat." Then comes superstition.

"According as you give or refuse me that which is yours, I will open to you the gates of heaven or of hell." Finally, monopoly appears.

Its distinguishing characteristic is to allow the existence of the grand social law--_service for service_--while it brings the element of force into the discussion, and thus alters the just proportion between _service received_ and _service rendered_.
Spoliation always bears within itself the germ of its own destruction.
Very rarely the many despoil the few.

In such a case the latter soon become so reduced that they can no longer satisfy the cupidity of the former, and spoliation ceases for want of sustenance.
Almost always the few oppress the many, and in that case spoliation is none the less undermined, for, if it has force as an agent, as in war and slavery, it is natural that force in the end should be on the side of the greater number.