Excerpt from Tenure and Toil: Or, Rights and Wrongs of Property and Labor Property is man's domain, labor the sum of his existence. To own is the passion of life, to do is the necessity of being. The germ and growth of the former are furnished and fostered by the latter. Thus it is that Tenure is the prerogative of Toil, which to abridge would be violence, to abolish, sacrilege. How best to employ the one so as to most fully enjoy the other has been a burden to philanthropy, a foil to statecraft, and a perplexity to human wisdom ever since man received his title-deeds to earth, sealed by the anathema of toil. The author does not arrogate the ability to solve problems which have eluded the wisdom of philosophers and sages in all the ages, nor does he claim that his are infallible specifics for all the social and political ills which afflict society. The carper and iconoclast are but thorns and stumbling-blocks in the path of social progress and political reform. Where the author seeks to modify or abolish existing conditions and institutions, he proposes plans and furnishes material with which to remodel and replace them.

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