Competition, no doubt, considering man as producer, must often interfere with his individual and _immediate_ interests.

But if we consider the great object of all labor, the universal good, in a word, Consumption, we cannot fail to find that Competition is to the moral world what the law of equilibrium is to the material one.

It is the foundation of true gratification, of true Liberty and Equality, of the equality of comforts and condition, so much sought after in our day; and if so many sincere reformers, so many earnest friends to public right, seek to reach their end by _commercial legislation_, it is only because they do not yet understand _commercial freedom_..