§. 35. The measure of property Nature well set, by the extent of men's labour
and the conveniency of life. No man's labour could subdue or appropriate all,
nor could his enjoyment consume more than a small part; so that it was
impossible for any man, this way, to entrench upon the right of another or
acquire to himself a property to the prejudice of his neighbour, who would
still have room for as good and as large a possession (after the other had
taken out his) as before it was appropriated. Which measure did confine every
man's possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might
appropriate to himself without injury to anybody in the first ages of the
world, when men were more in danger to be lost, by wandering from their
company, in the then vast wilderness of the earth than to be straitened for
want of room to plant in.
