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 fear, let Reprizals hould be made on him for any Injury he might do to others. This Origin is o much the more natural, as it is impoible to conceive how Property can flow from any other Source but Indutry; for what can a Man add but his Labour to things which he has not made, in order to acquire a Property in them? 'Tis the Labour of the Hands alone, which giving the Hubandman a Title to the Produce of the Land he has tilled gives him a Title to the Land itelf, at leat till he has gathered in the Fruits of it, and o on from Year to Year; and this Enjoyment forming a continued Poeion is eaily transformed into a Property. The Ancients, ays Grotius, by giving to Ceres the Epithet of Legilatrix, and to a Fetival celebrated in her Honour the Name of Themophoria, ininuated that the Ditribution of Lands produced a new kind of Right; that is, the Right of Property different