We must prevent this.

Let us proscribe the machine! To sift thoroughly this sophism, it is sufficient to remember that human labor is not an _end_ but a _means_.
_Labor is never without employment._ If one obstacle is removed, it seizes another, and mankind is delivered from two obstacles by the same effort which was at first necessary for one.

If the labor of coopers could become useless, it must take another direction.

To maintain that human labor can end by wanting employment, it would be necessary to prove that mankind will cease to encounter obstacles..