§. 29. Thus this law of reason makes the deer that Indian's who hath killed
it; it is allowed to be his goods who hath bestowed his labour upon it, though,
before, it was the common right of every one. And amongst those who are counted
the civilised part of mankind, who have made and multiplied positive laws to
determine property, this original law of Nature for the beginning of property,
in what was before common, still takes place, and by virtue thereof, what fish
any one catches in the ocean, that great and still remaining common of mankind;
or what amber-gris any one takes up here is by the labour that removes it out
of that common state Nature left it in, made his property who takes that pains
about it. And even amongst us, the hare that any one is hunting is thought his
who pursues her during the chase. For being a beast that is still looked upon
as common, and no man's private possession, whoever has employed so much labour
about any of that kind as to find and pursue her has thereby removed her from
the state of Nature wherein she was common, and hath begun a property.
