[Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frederic Bastiat]@TWC D-Link bookSophisms of the Protectionists PART IV 4/67
But quotations are superfluous; it is well known that the people attribute their sufferings to what they call _the trafficing in man by man_.
In fact, the phrase _tyranny of capital_ has become proverbial. I believe there is not a man in the world, who is aware of the whole importance of this question: "Is the interest of capital natural, just, and lawful, and as useful to the payer as to the receiver ?" You answer, no; I answer, yes.
Then we differ entirely; but it is of the utmost importance to discover which of us is in the right; otherwise we shall incur the danger of making a false solution of the question, a matter of opinion.
If the error is on my side, however, the evil would not be so great.
It must be inferred that I know nothing about the true interests of the masses, or the march of human progress; and that all my arguments are but as so many grains of sand, by which the car of the revolution will certainly not be arrested. But if, on the contrary, MM.
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