...mutual preservation of their lives, liberties, and estates, which I call by the genera? name, Property. The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...the state of nature there are many things wanting. Firstly, there wants an established, settled, known law, received and allowed by common consent to...

...possessors when they have been lawfully and honestly earned." — Dos Passes, Commercial Trusts, pp. 133-34. "The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...government, is the preservation of their property." — Locke: Civil Government, p. 76, Cassell's National Library edition. "The executive of the modern...

...apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases. 124. The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...the state of nature there are many things wanting. 125. Secondly. In the state of nature there wants a known and indifferent iudge^ with authority to...

...us take, however, the statement of the theory which we find in Locke, — "The great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government is the preservation of their property." " As if they had property before they do that! They do not, as we can see in Africa to-day. We might...

...This compact made government, not society. Men in the » "The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...the state of nature there are many things wanting. "Firstly, there wants an established, settled, known law, received and allowed by common consent to...

...of it." And in Chapter IX the matter is summed up thus : "The great and chief End therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths and putting themselves...Government, is the Preservation of their Property." Locke did not leave the object of government on. i] THE STATE'S CLAIM 3 this merely businesslike foundation....

...distinctly hostile to the spirit which is shaping the new labor situation. "The great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...government, is the preservation of their property." So wrote Locke in his classical treatise on government. It was an expression of the frankly materialistic...

...his chapter Of the ends of Political Society and Government, he writes : ' the great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...the preservation of their property ; to which in the 1 Book xxvi, ch. xv. State of Nature there are many things wanting.' In one respect Locke goes further...

...in the requirements of property owners, so is the end of the state to be sought in the same source. "The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...government is the preservation of their property." As the preservation of property is the origin • and end of the state, so it gives the right of revolution...

...Locke, in a famous passage, maintained, that ' The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting int Commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property '.a Humboldt, writingit is true under a government so oppressive that he had great difficulty in finding...