15. A new division of society into three classes.
Cultivators, Artificers, and Proprietors, or the productive,
stipendiary, and disposible classes.
We now behold society divided into three branches; the class
of husbandmen, whom we may denominate cultivators; the class of
artificers and others, who work for hire upon the productions of
the earth; and the class of proprietors, the only one which, not
being confined by a want of support to a particular species of
labour, may be employed in the general service of society, as for
war, and the administration of justice, either by a personal
service, or by the payment of a part of their revenue, with which
the state may hire others to fill these employments. The
appellation which suits the best with this division, for this
reason, is that of the disposable class.
