Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 51

What we should desire also is, that human intelligence should be enfeebled or extinguished; for, as long as it survives, it will be continually endeavouring to augment _the proportion which the end bears to the means, and which the product bears to the labour_. It is in that precisely that intelligence consists.

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