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Casado's PhD on Copyright , Madrid (1859)

Source: Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid; D 51302

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Casado's PhD on Copyright , Madrid (1859), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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            Chapter 1 Page 3 of 13 total



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            God said when throwing our first parents out
            of the mansion of paradise; and this terrible curse,
            which repeatedly echoed throughout the whole
            world, germinated the feeling of social behaviour
            and that of reciprocal aid in the heart of all men;
            inseparable feelings of human nature which
            some sophists have uselessly tried to dispute.
            However society is inconceivable without labour
            since God condemned man to take benefit from
            the land with the sweat from his forehead; and
            labour decreed by the divinity as being necessary
            for the conservation and perfection of human
            nature in the physical, intellectual and moral order,
            could not exist without laws that protect it,
            without justice that safeguard it, without autho-
            rity that defend it. What would society be like
            if the idler and vagabond had the right to take
            the fruits of the labour from the industrious
            and hard-working man by using force or trickery?
            Human nature trembles when observing the
            terrible consequences of this state of anarchy.
            It was therefore necessary, going back to the
            origin of the world, to respect what the hunter
            had caught, the tree that someone had disco-
            vered, the beast that had been domesticated.
            And in respect, born from the conscience
            of the first
            


    


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            dijo Dios al arrojar á nuestros primeros padres de
            la mansion del paraíso; y esa maldicion terible,
            que el eco repitió por todo el ámbito del mundo,
            hizo germinar en el corazón de todos los hom-
            bres el sentimiento de la sociabilidad y el de los
            auxilios recíprocos; sentimientos inseparables de la
            naturaleza humana, y que en vano se han intentado
            combatir por algunos sofistas. Pero la sociedad es
            inconcebible sin el trabajo desde que Dios condenó
            al hombre á beneficiar la tierra con el sudor de
            su frente; y el trabajo decretado por la Divinidad
            como medio necesario para la conservacion y per-
            feccion de la naturaleza humana en el órden físico,
            intelectual y moral, no podria existir sin leyes que
            le protegiesen, sin justicia que le amparase, sin
            autoridad que le defendiese. ¿Qué seria, pues, de
            la sociedad si el holgazan y el vagubando tuviesen
            el derecho de arrebatar con la fuerza ó la astucia el
            producto de su trabajo al hombre industrioso y
            trabajador? La naturaleza humana se estremece al
            contemplar las terribles consecuencias de este es-
            tado de permanente anarquía. Fue, pues, necesario,
            retrotrayéndonos al origen del mundo, respetar al
            cazador su caza, al árbol á quien le había descu-
            bierto, la fiera al que la había domesticado. Y este
            respeto, nacido de la conciencia de los primeros
            
            


    

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