§. 28. By making an explicit consent of every commoner necessary to any one's
appropriating to himself any part of what is given in common. Children or
servants could not cut the meat which their father or master had provided for
them in common without assigning to every one his peculiar part. Though the
water running in the fountain be every one's, yet who can doubt but that in the
pitcher is his only who drew it out? His labour hath taken it out of the hands
of Nature where it was common, and belonged equally to all her children, and
hath thereby appropriated it to himself.
