[20] Icarie, Phalanstère, etc.,—allusion to Socialist works of the day.—Translator.
[21] “Our industrial régime, founded on competition without guarantee and without organization, is then only a social hell, a vast realization of all the torments and all the punishments of the ancient Tænarus. There is one difference, however—namely, the victims.”—(Vide Considérant.)
III. WANTS OF MAN
[22] A mathematical law of frequent occurrence, but very little understood in Political Economy.
[23] One of the indirect objects of this work is to combat modern sentimental schools, who, in spite of facts, refuse to admit that suffering to any extent enters into the designs of Providence. As these schools are said to proceed from Rousseau, I must here cite to them a passage from their master: “The evil which we see is not absolute evil; and far from being directly antagonistic to the good, it concurs with it in the universal harmony.”
[24] The term consumption employed by English Economists, the French Economists translate by consommation.—Translator.
IV. EXCHANGE
[25] V. J. B. Say.
[26] Moreover, this slave, by reason of his superiority, ends in the long-run by depreciating and emancipating all others. This is a harmony which I leave to the sagacity of the reader to follow to its consequences.
[27] See Sophismes Économiques (English edition), 2d series, p. 127, et seq.