...and pum'sAmeails\ntimately Connected withtHlTc1rcumstance of property being placed upon~an"eqnitable basis. *'To whom does any article of property, suppose...will be most beneficial. Here are six men, famished wjth hunger, and the loaf is, absolutely considered, capable of satisfying the cravings of them all....

...considered treason. He declared that any article of property justly belongs to those who most want it, " or to whom the possession of it will be most beneficial." But his objection to the marriage law seemed the most glaringly immoral part of his philosophy. He...

...considered treason. He declared that any article of property justly belongs to those who most want it, " or to whom the possession of it will be most beneficial." But his objection to the marriage law seemed the most glaringly immoral part of his philosophy. He...

..." that we should love our neighbours as ourselves." But this maxim, though possessing considerable To whom does any article of property, suppose a loaf of bread, justly belong? To him^who most wants it, or to whom the possession of it will be most beneficial. Here are six men famished...

...described as ' imbecile and impotent,' and lays down the communistic maxim that anything ' justly belongs ' to him who most wants it, or to whom the possession of it will be most beneficial.''1 1 See his Natural and Constitutional Rights of Britons, 1795, pp. 42-3. At a meeting...

...individuals concerned have for the commodities that are to be distributed. "To whom," asks Godwin, "does an article of property, suppose a loaf of bread, justly...benefit by the qualities with which this loaf is endowed ? " And he answers the question by saying, " If justice have any meaning, nothing can be more iniquitous...

...intensity of the needs which the individuals concerned have for the commodities that are to be distributed. of it will be most beneficial ? Here are six men famished...benefit by the qualities with which this loaf is endowed ? " And he answers the question by saying, " If justice have any meaning, nothing can be more iniquitous...

...1793, was devoted to the question of property which, Godwin maintained, ought to belong to the person 'who most wants it, or to whom the possession of it will be the most beneficial'. Though these arguments would be familiar only to the intellectual minority, other...

...for granted as the givens of their society. He had the habit of asking provocative questions such as: 'To whom does any article of property, suppose a loaf of bread, jusdy belong?' To him, as to Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean, die answer is to 'whom the possession of it...

...property relations be abolished and that property belong to that person whom it would benefit most: To whom does any article of property, suppose a loaf...reasonable claim to benefit by the qualities with which the loaf is endowed? They are all brothers perhaps, and the law of primogeniture bestows it exclusively...