...Locke has a peculiar idea of who owns his or her own labor. He notoriously argues at one point, "Thus the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has cut; and the ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property without...

...not unique, as we saw in discussing Mirabeau. In addition, John Locke (1698, 307) had written, "Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd . . . become my Property," but Smith went much further. In fact, Smith attributed so much importance...

...applied to capital investment in a horse or the wage pa1d one's servant as to the act of digging: "thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd ... become my Property"9 1 Labor was, in Locke's usage, a term from a moral dictionary rather...

...Commoners. Thus the Grass my Horse has hit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with others, hecome my Property, without the assignation or consent of any hody. The lahour that was mine, removing...

...subjection.'10 But at the same time he says, with a constant reference to the state of nature: 'Thus, the grass my horse has bit, the turfs my servant has...property without the assignation or consent of anybody.'" Is then the servant not an equal individual? On the contrary, in the latter quotation, the servant...

...Government, ed. and intr. by P. Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), 303-20, see 307: "Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others; become my Property, without...

...produc27. "Thus the Grass my horse has bit; the turf my Servant has cut; and the ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with others, becomes my Property, without the assignation or consent of anybody" [Locke, 1689, § 28, p. 330]. tion....

...landowner could be considered as "working" because his money was laboring for him. Therefore, Locke added, "the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut. . . become my Property." 2i "Labor" thus meant the money paid the employee ("servant" in seventeenth-century...

...are fulfilled, then, "the grass that my horse has bit, the turf my servant has cut, and the ore that I have digged in any place where I have a right to...property without the assignation or consent of anybody." One might argue that this entitles a man to the ownership of the grass, the turf and the ore rather...

...becomes the master's, not the laborer's. This moment of the transfer of labor is famously described: "the grass my horse has bit, the turfs my servant has cut . . . become my property. . . . The labour that was mine removing them out of that common state they...