His death, which occurred at Pisa, Italy, on the 24th December, 1850, at the age of 49, was a serious loss to France and to the world.

His works, though for the most part fragmentary, and given to the public from time to time through the columns of the _Journal des Economistes_, the _Journal des Debats_, and the _Libre Echange_, remain a monument of a noble intellect guided by a noble soul.

They have been collected and published (including the _Harmonies Economiques_, which the author left in manuscript) by Guillaumin & Co., the proprietors of the _Journal des Economistes_, in two editions of six volumes each, 8vo.

and 12mo.

When we reflect that these six volumes were produced between April, 1844, and December, 1850, by a young man of feeble constitution, who commenced life as a clerk in a mercantile establishment, and who spent much of his time during these six years in delivering public lectures, and laboring in the National Assembly, to which he was chosen in 1848, our admiration for such industry is only modified by the thought that if he had been more saving of his strength, he might have rendered even greater services to his country and to mankind.
[Footnote 3: Mr.Macleod (_Dictionary of Political Economy_, vol.I, p.
246) speaks of Bastiat's definition of Value as "the greatest revolution that has been effected in any science since the days of Galileo." See also Professor Perry's pamphlet, _Recent Phases of Thought in Political Economy_, read before the American Social Science Association, October, 1868, in which, it appears to me, that Bastiat's theory of Rent, in announcing which he was anticipated by Mr.Carey, is too highly praised.] The _Sophismes Economiques_, which fill the larger portion of this volume, were not expected by their author to outlast the fallacies which they sought to overthrow.