It is a gratuitous gift; a tribute exacted from nature by the genius of man.

We grant that, during this process, a certain sum of labor will have been _displaced_, forced to change its direction; but we cannot allow that it has been destroyed or even diminished.
The case is the same with regard to importations.

I will resume my hypothesis.
France, according to our supposition, manufactured ten millions of hats at fifteen francs each.

Let us now suppose that a foreign producer brings them into our market at ten francs.

I maintain that _national labor_ is thus in no wise diminished.