As to that which is produced by Nature, without any aid from human industry, I mean the land, since its vast extent provided enough for all, in the early times when the human race was small, in numbers, men appropriated at first as much as they thought they had need of; the rest was left in common.

— PUFENDORF, Law of Nature and Nations (1672) Book IV., Chap. 4, Sec. 6.