Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 138

At a time when everybody is bent on bringing about a saving in the expense of transport--and when, in order to effect this saving, we are forming roads and canals, improving our steamers, and connecting Paris with all our frontiers by a network of railways--at a time, too, when I believe we are ardently and sincerely seeking a solution of the problem, _how to bring the prices of commodities, in the place where they are to be consumed, as nearly as possible to the level of their prices in the place where they were produced_,--I should think myself wanting to my country, to my age, and to myself, if I kept longer secret the marvellous discovery which I have just made.

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