Excerpt from Letters to Farmers Sons on the Questions of the Day: Being Familiar Talks on Political Economy

That is, in a just manner. A Just manner, means a Right manner.

And so at the bottom of this subject is

Right.

If you plant an apple tree and take care of it, it is your right to have the apples.

If you make a harrow out of your own wood and iron, you have the right to the harrow.

When you were a babe, you had a right to the care of your mother.

As an Infant you had the right to breathe, to eat and drink and sleep.

Now I think you will always understand me when I speak of rights.

When I speak of rights I refer always to personal rights, whether single or connected with others in a community.

Perhaps animals have rights, and very likely flowers, and vegetables have rights, but I shall refer only to human rights.

Persons have natural rights, which they are born with, and inhere in human existence, such as Life and Liberty.

The right to life, includes the right to procure the necessary things to prolong life, and make it comfortable and happy.

And the right to do that, includes the right to those natural elements which are necessary for its accomplishment, and which Nature bestowed for that very purpose, namely: Land, Water, Air, Sunlight.

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