Tenure and Toil
Gibbons, John Excerpt from Tenure and Toil: Or, Rights and Wrongs of Property and Labor
Property is man's domain, labor the sum of his existence. To own is the passion of life, to do is the necessity of being. The germ and growth of the former are furnished and fostered by the latter. Thus it is that Tenure is the prerogative of Toil, which to abridge would be violence, to abolish, sacrilege. How best to employ the one so as to most fully enjoy the other h...