Second Part.
The firſt Man, who, after encloſing a Piece of Ground, took it into his Head to ſay, This is mine, and found People ſimple enough to believe him, was the true Founder of civil Society. How many Crimes, how many Wars, how many Murders, how many Misfortunes and Horrors, would that Man have ſaved the Human Species, who pulling up the Stakes or filling up the Ditches ſhould have cried to his Fellows: Be ſure not to liſten to this Impoſtor; you are loſt, if you forget that the Fruits of the Earth belong equally to us all, and the Earth itſelf to nobody! But it is highly probable that things were now come to ſuch a paſs, that they could not continue much longer in the ſame Way; for as this Idea of Property depends on ſeveral prior Ideas which could only ſpring up gradually
