THROUGH THE INVENTOR'S INGENUITY AND INDUSTRY THIS COUNTRY HAS ATTAINED ITS MIGHTY POTENCY IN WAR.
[ CHAPTER 29
The Law's Definition of Property—and Public Policy]
Evidently the law's definitions of "Industry and Property" are only that which were known and accepted as such before the Era of Mechanical Inventions. And while the law is sufficiently modern in exacting a fee from this modern class of toilers, yet it has not modernized sufficiently to extend to them the encouragement and protection that in all reason and justice they are entitled to, even without additional exaction from them, and it is also against public policy.
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear."
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air."