The Restoration Of Property Would Be A

Ownership Is Not A General Feature Of Our Society, Determining Its Character. On The Contrary, Dependence On A Precarious Wage At The Will Of Others Is The General Feature Of Our Society.

There Is No One Who Has Cooked But Has Discovered That Each Particular Dish Depends For Its Rightness Upon Some Little Point Which He Is Never Told. It Is Not Only So Of Cooking: It Is So Of Splicing A Rope; Of Painting A Surface Of Wood; Of Mixing Mortar; Of Almost Anything You Like To Name Among The Immemorial Human Arts.

Economic Freedom Is In Our Eyes A Good. It Is Among The Highest Of Temporal Goods Because It Is Necessary To The Highest Life Of Society Through The Dignity Of Man And Through The Multiplicity Of His Action, In Which Multiplicity Is Life. Through Well-divided Property Alone Can The Units Of Society React Upon The State. Through It Alone Can A Public Opinion Flourish. Only Where The Bulk Of The Cells Are Healthy Can The Whole Organism Thrive.

If We Do Not Restore The Institution Of Property We Cannot Escape Restoring The Institution Of Slavery; There Is No Third Course.

Capitalism Had Arisen Through The Misuse And Exaggeration Of Certain Rights, Notably The Right Of Property - The Basis Of Economic Freedom - And The Right Of Contract, Which Is One Of The Main Functions Of Economic Freedom. Therefore, Even Under Capitalism, So Long As The Old Principles Were Remembered It Was Possible To Recall The Principles Whereby Society Had Once Been Sane And Well Ordered.