Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 151

In sober earnestness, let me ask, is it not humiliating that the nineteenth century should make itself a laughing-stock to future ages by such puerilities, practised with such imperturbable gravity? To be the dupe of other people is not very pleasant, but to employ a vast representative apparatus in order to dupe, and double dupe, ourselves--and that, too, in an affair of arithmetic--should surely humble the pride of this _age of enlightenment_.

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