"...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)..."
John Locke was an English philosopher and political thinker of the Enlightenment. He is widely known for An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government, works that shaped empiricism and liberal political theory.