They are those where men, not considering their own dignity and energy, would believe themselves lost, if they were not governed and administered upon in all things.

Without having traveled much, I have seen countries where they think agriculture can make no progress unless the State keeps up experimental farms; that there will presently be no horses if the State has no stables; and that fathers will not have their children educated, or will teach them only immoralities, if the State does not decide what it is proper to learn.
In such a country revolutions may rapidly succeed one another, and one set of rulers after another be overturned.

But the governed are none the less governed at the caprice and mercy of their rulers, until the people see that it is better to leave the greatest possible number of services in the category of those which the parties interested exchange after a fair discussion of the price.
We have seen that society is an exchange of services, and should be but an exchange of good and honest ones.

But we have also proven that men have a great interest in exaggerating the relative value of the services they render one another.

I cannot, indeed, see any other limit to these claims than the free acceptance or free refusal of those to whom these services are offered.
Hence it comes that certain men resort to the law to curtail the natural prerogatives of this liberty.