Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 4

It is perhaps aiming too high, but my wish is, I confess, that this little work should become, as it were, the _Manual_ of those whose business it is to pronounce between the two principles. Where men have not been long accustomed and familiarized to the doctrine of liberty, the sophisms of protection, in one shape or another, are constantly coming back upon them. In order to disabuse them of such errors when they recur, a long process of analysis becomes necessary; and every one has not the time required for such a process--legislators less than others. This is my reason for endeavouring to present the analysis and its results cut and dry.

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