[15] This Chapter was first published in the ‹Journal des
Économistes›, January 1848.—«Editor.»
[16] Allusion to a socialist work of the day—‹La Reforme
industrielle, ou la Phalanstère, par Ch. Fourier›.—«Translator.»
[17] ‹Métayage› is a mode of letting farms in the south of
Europe, where the landlord furnishes a proportion of the means
of cultivation, and shares the produce with the cultivator, or
‹métayer›.—«Translator.»
[18] “It is averred that the régime of free competition demanded
by an ignorant Political Economy, and intended to do away with
monopolies, tends only to the general organization of monster
monopolies in all departments.”—‹Principes du Socialisme, par M.
Considérant›, p. 15.