The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.