Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 38

The first system naturally welcomes everything which tends to diminish _pains_ and augment _products_; powerful machinery which increases the forces of man, exchange which allows him to derive greater advantage from natural agents distributed in various proportions over the face of the earth, intelligence which discovers, experience which proves, competition which stimulates, etc.

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