Locke then argues how the land should be utilized. Locke makes the point that land, on its own, holds little value. People must then take the labor into their own hands and transform the land for it to be advantageous and useful to the people. While it is true that God “gave the world to men in common,” it was for the purpose of “their benefit, and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it.” This means that sole purpose of the land was to benefit the people, and on its own, the land does not have enough sustenance to reap those benefits. Therefore, God knew that the land “should not always remain common and uncultivated,” but be given use by the “industrial and rational.” This indicates that if the people were to
