more strongly and unequivocally for this its discrepancy with fact. It is all the more evidently a competent expression of the trend which English common sense was following at this time, since this doctrine of a " natural " right of prc^ erty baaed on productive labor carries all before it, in the face of the facts. In this matter English thought, or rather English common sense, has led ; and the advanced Continental peoples have followed the English lead as the form of economic organization exemplified by the English-speaking communities has come to prevail among these Continental peoples.
Such a concept belongs to the regime of handi-j craft and petty trade, and it is from, or through,] the era of handicraft that it has come down tol the present,^ It fits into the scheme of handicraft, and it is less fully in consonance with the facts of life in any other situation than that of handicraft. Associated with the system of handi-
■ Wbat appears to be neceasary to the deTelopment of such a sentiment 1b that nultber slavery nor the machine syaMm shall be preseut in Boffloient lorce to gUe u pronotiiiced bias to Uie cummunity'a bablU uf thought, at the naine time that eacb member uf the community, or each minor gruup ot persons, habitually carrieB on its own work at its own discretion acid fur its own ends. Such a situatiun may or may not involve handicraft as that term is specifically underslood. A prostunptlon of similar imprirt, but less pronounced and less defined, seems lo prevail In an uncertain degree among many peoples on a low stage of culture. The tonet, accordingly, has some claim to stand aa an expression of "natural " right, even when "natural" ia taken in an evolutionary sense.