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| Gerrard Winstanley
Buying and Selling is an art, whereby people endeavour to cheat one another of the Land ... and true Religion is, To let every one enjoy it. If thou consent to freedom for the rich in the City and givest freedom to the freeholders in the country, and to priests and lawyers and lords of manors ... and yet allowest the poor no freedom, thou art a declared hypocrite. No man shall have any more land than he can labor himself or have others to labor with him in love, working together, and eating bread together, as one of the tribes or families of Israel neither giving nor taking hire. None ought to be lords or landlords over another, but the earth is free for every son and daughter of mankind to live free upon. Propriety [Property] and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere. So long as the earth is intagled and appropriated into particular hands and kept there by the power of the sword ... so long the creation lies under bondage. Some hearing of this Common Freedom think there must be a community of all the fruits of the earth whether they work or no, therefore strive to live idle on other men's labours. Take notice, That England is not a a Free People, till the Poor that have no Land, have a free allowance to dig and labour the Commons, and so live as Comfortably as the Landlords that live in their Inclosures. Then certainly none shall say, This is my Land, work for me and I'le give you Wages. For, the Earth is the Lords, that is, Mans, who is the Lord of Creation. Those that Buy and Sell Land, and are landlords, have got it either by Oppression, or Murther, or Theft. True religion and undefiled is this, To make restitution of the earth which hath been taken and held from the common people by the power of Conquests formerly and so set the oppressed free. Yet my mind was not at rest, because nothing was acted, and thoughts run in me that words and writings were all nothing, and must die, for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing. |
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