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để hỏi cho dù đó là đau khổ đã không tiến hành từ thực tế rằng nguyên tắc này trong một hình thức nhất định đã được thực hiện? Trước khi tìm kiếm một biện pháp khắc phục trong các rối loạn mới của pháp luật xã hội tự nhiên, bạn nên đảm bảo rằng nhiễu loạn không tự tạo thành tà ác mà xã hội bị, | Harmonies of Political Economy Book One 115 to inquire whether that distress has not proceeded from the very fact that this principle in a certain form has been realized already Before seeking a remedy in new disturbances of the natural social laws should you not make sure that such perturbations do not themselves constitute the very evil from which society suffers and which it is your object to cure To take from one in order to give to another Just allow me to mark here the danger and the absurdity from an economical point of view of this so-called social aspiration which fermenting among the masses of our population broke forth with so terrific a force in the revolution of February. Where society consists of several grades we are apt to think that people of the highest rank enjoy Privileges or Monopolies at the expense of all the other members of the community. This is odious but it is not absurd. The second grade the class immediately below the first will not fail to attack and batter down monopolies and with the assistance of the masses they will succeed sooner or later in bringing about a Revolution. In that case power passes into their hands and they still think that power implies Monopoly. This is still odious but it is not absurd at least it is not impracticable for Monopolies are impossible as long as there is below the grade that enjoys them a lower stratum namely the public at large that supports and feeds them. If the third and fourth grade succeed in their turn in effecting a revolution they will if they can so arrange as to make the most of the masses by means of privileges or monopolies skillfully combined. But then the masses emaciated ground down trampled upon must also have their revolution. Why What are they going to do You think perhaps that they are going to abolish all monopolies and privileges and to inaugurate the reign of universal justice that they are about to exclaim away with restrictions away with shackles and tram-mels away with .