Présentation de l'éditeur
The following article is repn Wiehed from the Boston Quarterly Review to meet the pre ging demand tor it, which a needless excitement about it has produced. The writer ofthia article makes it a duly to read all that he can find written against either him or his doctrines; but he feeis under no obligations to reply. The doctrines of the article in question have been objected to, but he will now enter into no defei ce of them. He will only say that he has seen no criticism upon them that indicates that the critic had even the most distant conception of the thought of his author. The majority of those who object to the article, are respectfully commended to the care of the instructors in our primary schools ;for if they could read they would find that the article itself refutes most of the objections they urge. In regard to what is said of the hereditary descent of property, it may be well for refders to bear in mind that the article contains but a brief statement of a doctrine without any explanations or details ;and, also, that in proposing the abolition of hereditary property, it merely does it as a prospective measure, as a measure which will ultimately be found neceg. sary to the complete enfranchisement of the proletary. The writer of the article recognizes,! in its fullest extent, mans natural right to property, and he would be the last to suffer the legislature to interfere with any of the natural rights of man. He advocates no wild scheme of a community of goods; he holds to individual property. Within the limits of the moral law, he would leave every free ma., to do what he will with hip own. But it is an admitted principle that a mans natural right to property ceases when he ceases to exist. In other words, man can own property only during his life. It is al oan admitted principle, that it is not by virtue of a natural right that the child inherits f
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