Spoliation in the shape of war has its root in selfishness, 459.
Personal interest gives rise to harmony, but there are
disturbing causes, 460.
Labour is in itself a good, independent of its results, but we
do not desire it for its own sake, ‹ib.›
Man, being placed between two evils, want and labour, seeks to
get rid of both, 461.
Spoliation then presents itself as a solution of the problem,
‹ib.›