[701] On this question of who benefits by international trade see our discussion of Mill’s treatment of the problem (pp. 364-365).
[702] Harmonies, p. 21. Our quotations are taken from the tenth edition of the Œuvres complètes.
[703] “Economic phenomena are not without their efficient cause and their Providential aim.” (Harmonies, last page.)
“Looking at this harmony, the economist can join with the astronomer and the physiologist and say: Digitus Dei est hic.” (Ibid., chap. 10, p. 39.)
“If everyone would only look after his own affairs, God would look after everybody’s.” (Ibid., chap. 8, p. 290.)
[704] Auguste Comte, Cours de Philosophie positive, vol. iv, p. 202.
[705] The liturgy of the Reformed Church reads as follows: “We acknowledge and confess our manifold sins.” See our chapter on Doctrines that owe their Inspiration to Christianity.
[706] Harmonies, chap. 5, p. 140.
[707] “I have attempted to show that value is based not so much upon the amount of labour which a thing has cost the person who made it, as upon the amount of labour it saves the persons who obtain it. [He ought to have acknowledged his indebtedness to Carey in this matter.] Hence I have adopted the term ‘service,’ which implies both ideas.” (Ibid., chap. 9, p. 341.)
[708] Ibid., chap. 5, p. 145.