London And Londoners Or a Second Judgment of Babylon the Great volume 1
London And Londoners Or a Second Judgment of Babylon the Great volume 1
Robert Mudie
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They have been attentive to the eggs, as it were ; but they have not watched and fed the goose. Now, if there be any one kind of property to which the possessor is more entitled than another, and which, consequently, calls more for the protection of -the law than any other, it is the property which a man has in the inventions of his head or the labour of his hands. This is obvious for two rea- sons: first, because it is more strictly personal, more intimately identified with the possessor, and ...more dependent upon him for its existence than any other property ; and secondly, because the possessor is less in a condition to protect it from thieves, and less able to detect and recover it when stolen. Upon these grounds, justice to the indivi- dual calls for some remedy at law, and calls for it in such a way as that it may operate without the interference of the injured parties themselves. But besides these demands of natural justice, there is a claim on account of society ; for as he who dis- covers or invents any thing pleasurable or profit- able, always communicates to the public more service or gratification than he himself can possibly, as an individual, receive in return, it follows that BABYLON THE GREAT.
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