Steam-driven stage-coaches plied on the Bath road.

But the state and public opinion were again in obstinate opposition; these vehicles were crushed out of existence by the imposition of monstrous tolls; and progress was checked a second time and for a longer period still.

An instance yet more modern is that supplied by the electric lighting of London.

The electric lighting of London was retarded for ten years solely by the attitude which the state assumed towards private enterprise.
It is needless to multiply illustrations of this kind further; for my object is not to show that the state, as it exists at present, is necessarily inimical to private enterprise as a whole.

It is not, for it has not the power to be.