45. But they, too,
who would forbid the city to strangers Cic. de
Off. III. 11, § 67.
cannot have our approval. They would expel them at the very time
when they ought to help, and separate them from the trade of their
common parent. They would refuse them a share in the produce
meant for all, and avert the intercourse that has already begun; and
they are unwilling, in a time of necessity, to give those with whom
they have enjoyed their rights in common, a share in what they
themselves have. Beasts do not drive out beasts, yet man shuts
out man. Wild beasts and animals consider food which the earth
supplies to be common to all. They all give assistance to those
like themselves; and man, who ought to think nothing human foreign to
himself, fights against his own.