Every great man is a unique. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. For every thing that is given, something is taken.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.