[83] The Dialogues of Plato. Laws. B. Jowett’s Translation, B. IV., 238.
[84] Xenophon’s Memorabilia of Socrates, translation by J. S. Watson, B. II., Chap. 2.
[85] Xenophon’s Memorabilia. Translation J. S. Watson.
[86] Des Devoirs de l’homme, ch. xii.
[87] A European custom.—Transl.
[88] See our work on La Famille (3d lecture).
[89] Le Vrai, le Beau et le Bien. Lect. xxi., ch. xxii.
[90] There is no injustice done to him who consents to it.
[91] St. Augustin, Cité de Dieu, I., xvii., trad. d’Em. Saisset.
[92] One will say, perhaps, that the merchant is never innocent, for he should have foreseen the risks which threatened him, and provided against them. But there is no commerce without risks. There is, then, a certain amount of risks which it is allowed and even necessary to run, or else suppress commerce altogether. For example, a merchant in times of peace certainly knows that there may suddenly arise a cause of war, and he must make provision against the eventuality; but if all his transactions were influenced by that idea, commerce in times of peace would not differ from commerce in times of war, and would consequently be null.