“What I had to do, was, to turn the painful discipline of my younger days to account, by going to work with a resolute and steady heart. What I had to do, was, to take my woodman’s axe in my hand, and clear my own way through the forest of difficulty, by cutting down the trees until I came to…
One of the seminal concepts in history is Property, and the most influential expounder of that concept is John Locke. His conception of property, and the rights it bestows on individual citizens, became central to 18th century British and American law ― a tradition that spread widely and endures. In what we refer to as his Second Treatise of Government,…