We are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

— Ezekiel, XXXIII., 24.

For Nature has given, nor to him, nor to me, Nor to anyone else, of these acres the fee.

— HORACE, Satires, II., 2. (Translation of Sir Theodore Martin)

Nature hath given to every one a right to all . . .

— THOMAS HOBBES, Philosophical Elements. (1642), Chap. I., Sec. 10.