Euroopa ideede ajaloo eksami kordamisküsimused
state of nature become again perfectly common, no body having a right to inherit them: nor can any one have a property in
them, otherwise than in other things common by nature; of which I shall speak in its due place. I have been the larger, in
shewing upon what ground children have a right to succeed to the possession of their fathers properties, not only because
by it, it will appear, that if Adamhad a property (a titular, insignificant, useless property; for it could be no better, for he
was bound to nourish and maintain his children and posterity out of it) in the whole earth and its product, yet all his
children coming to have, by the law of nature, and right of inheritance, a joint title, and right of property in it after his
death, it could convey no right of sovereignty to any one of his posterity over the rest: since every one having a right of