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The Law

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I must have been forty years old before reading Frederic
Bastiat’s classic The Law. An anonymous person, to whom I shall
eternally be in debt, mailed me an unsolicited copy. After reading
the book I was convinced that a liberal-arts education without
an encounter with Bastiat is incomplete. Reading Bastiat
made me keenly aware of all the time wasted, along with the
frustrations of going down one blind alley after another, organizing
my philosophy of life. The Law did not produce a philosophical
conversion for me as much as it created order in my thinking
about liberty and just human conduct.
Many philosophers have made important contributions to
the discourse on liberty, Bastiat among them. But Bastiat’s greatest
contribution is that he took the discourse out of the ivory
tower and made ideas on liberty so clear that even the unlettered
can understand them and statists cannot obfuscate them.
Clarity is crucial to persuading our fellowman of the moral superiority
of personal liberty

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: ., 1998

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English

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1-57246-073-3

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1st Edition

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Law

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