FOOTNOTES -

*001 General Council of Manufacturers, Agriculture, and Commerce, May 6, 1850.

*002 Translator's note: At the time this was written, Mr. Bastiat knew that he was dying of tuberculosis. Within a year, he was dead.

*003 Translator's note: The French word used by Mr. Bastiat is

spoliation.

*004 If the special privilege of government protection against competition- a monopoly- were granted only to one group in France, the iron workers, for instance, this act would so obviously be legal plunder that it could not last for long. It is for this reason that we see all the protected trades combined into a common cause. They even organize themselves in such a manner as to appear to represent all persons who labor. Instinctively, they feel that legal plunder is concealed by generalizing it.

*005 Translator's note: The parenthetical expressions and the italicized words throughout this book were supplied by Mr. Bastiat. All subheads and bracketed material were supplied by the translator.

*006 Translator's note: What was then known as Paraguay was a much larger area than it is today. It was colonized by the Jesuits who settled the Indians into villages, and generally saved them from further brutalities by the avid conquerors.

*007 Translator's note: According to Rousseau, the existence of social man is partial in the sense that he is henceforth merely a

part of society. Knowing himself as such- and thinking and feeling from the point of view of the whole- he thereby becomes moral.

*008 At this point in the original French text, Mr. Bastiat pauses and speaks thusly to all do-gooders and would-be rulers of mankind: "Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."