(2) It is objected that protection violates the right of every man to do what he will with his own.
(3) It is said to be of the nature of a tax on all the other industries for the support of those protected.
(4) It is objected that the restrictive system causes a diminution of exports from the protected country, on the principle that if the latter does not buy of the former, then the former can not pay for the goods of the latter.
(5) Another argument is that “infant industries” under protection never come to maturity.
(6) Finally, the case of the United States is cited as an instance of free trade on a large scale between widely remote sections, with the most satisfactory results.
READINGS IN ART.
III.—MODERN SCULPTURE.
The ten centuries following the second have no sculptural remains of value. The dark ages threw their shadow over art, as over literature and society. No doubt the feeling prevalent in the early Church that the “graven image” might become an idol, hindered the progress of the plastic art quite as much as the general decay that pervaded every form of human undertaking.