[Footnote 1: First published in 1850.]
[Footnote 2: General Council of Manufactures, Agriculture, and Commerce,
6th of May, 1850.]
[Footnote 3: If protection were only granted in France to a single
class, to the engineers, for instance, it would be so absurdly
plundering, as to be unable to maintain itself. Thus we see all the
protected trades combine, make common cause, and even recruit themselves
in such a way as to appear to embrace the mass of the national labor.
They feel instinctively that plunder is slurred over by being
generalized.]
[Footnote 4: Political economy precedes politics: the former has to
discover whether human interests are harmonious or antagonistic, a fact
which must be settled before the latter can determine the prerogatives
of Government.]