In this sense,
the possession of all things in common and universal freedom are said to be of the natural law, because, to wit, the distinction of possessions and slavery were not brought in by nature, but devised by human reason for the benefit of human life.
Summa Theologica, Ia IIae q. 94 a. 5.
(Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, London: R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd., 1915, pt. 2, 1st pt., q. 90-114, pp. 49-51.)
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