William Wollaston

1660 – 1724

William Wollaston (1660-1724) was an English philosopher whose most popular work was The Religion of Nature Delineated (1722) which went through many editions. In Section VI he has a defence of natural rights to property.

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If a body of soldiers, seeing another body approach, should fire upon them, would not this action declare that they were enemies; and if they were not enemies, would not this military language declare what was false? No, perhaps it…

—William Wollaston

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