Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 214

I am quite aware that I shall be reproached (it is the fashion of the day) with basing the fraternity of nations on men's personal interest--vile, prosaic self-interest. Better far, it may be thought, that it should have had its basis in charity, in love, even in a little self-abnegation, and that, interfering somewhat with men's material comforts, it should have had the merit of a generous sacrifice.

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