BOOK IV. 



IMPOTENCE OF THE REMEDIES PROPOSED, AND THE 

 ERRONEOUS REASONS ASCRIBED FOR THE DIFFI- 

 CULTIES NOW OVERTAKING THE FARMERS OF 

 AMERICA. 



What man is free to practise or not, is that association with his 

 fellow-men which, within certain limits, increases his powers and 

 enables him to perform prodigies. But carry this association to ex- 

 tremes, let no limit be assigned to its action, let it be developed and 

 applied without measure and without consideration, and where does 

 it end — in law or in communism ? — CouRTOis. 



