[726] “Just as the earth is the great reservoir of electricity, so the public or the consumer is the one source of any gain or loss which the producer makes or suffers. Everything comes back to the consumer. Consequently every important question must be studied from the consumer’s point of view if we want to get hold of its general and permanent results.” (Harmonies, chap. 11, p. 414.)
[727] See one of Bastiat’s best known pamphlets, La Vitre cassée.
[728] Harmonies, chap. 6, p. 419.
[729] Quoted by his friend Paillottet in his preface to the Œuvres complètes.
[730] E.g. Yves Guyot in the Journal des Économistes for 1904 et passim. See [p. 326].
[731] The word is not his invention. That honour is claimed by Pierre Leroux. See [p. 235].
[732] Harmonies, chap. 21, p. 624.
“There is not a man living whose character has not been determined by a thousand factors entirely beyond his control.” (Ibid., p. 623.)
“All profit by the progress of the one, and the one by the progress of the many.” (Ibid., chap. 11, p. 411.)
[733] “Solidarity implies a kind of collective responsibility. And so solidarity as well as responsibility is a force that makes for progress. It is a system that is admirably calculated to check evil and to advance the good.” (Ibid., chap. 21, pp. 622-626.)