and he has putes in the midst of a hav variety of natural resour.but the application of our faculties to these natural resources, by that we convert them into products and use them. this process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course. life faculties production. in other words, individually, individuality, liberty, property. this is man. and in spite of the cunning and artful political leaders, these three gifts from god precede all human legislation and are superior to it. life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. on the contrary, the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand is what has caused men to make laws in the first place. each of us has a natural right from god to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. these are the three basic requirements of life. and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent on the preservation of the other two. for what are our faculties but the extension of our individuals and what is property but an extension of our faculties.