The protective system, closely followed up, would bring men to live like snails, in a state of complete isolation.

In short, there is not one of its Sophisms, which if carried through by vigorous deductions, would not end in destruction and annihilation.
II.

It is not true that the unequal facility of production, in two similar branches of industry, should necessarily cause the destruction of the one which is the least fortunate.

On the turf, if one horse gains the prize, the other loses it; but when two horses work to produce any useful article, each produces in proportion to his strength; and because the stronger is the more useful, it does not follow that the weaker is good for nothing.

Wheat is cultivated in every department of France, although there are great differences in the degree of fertility existing among them.