But intelligence, spontaneity, development, life, all that
constitutes in the highest degree the reality of being, is
as essential to society as to man: and hence it is that the
government of societies is a SCIENCE,-- that is, a study of
natural relations,--and not an ART,-- that is, good pleasure and
absolutism. Hence it is, finally, that every society declines
the moment it falls into the hands of the ideologists.
The principle that ALL LABOR SHOULD LEAVE AN EXCESS,
undemonstrable by political economy,--that is, by proprietary
routine,--is one of those which bear strongest testimony to the
reality of the collective person: for, as we shall see, this
principle is true of individuals only because it emanates from
society, which thus confers upon them the benefit of its own
laws.
Let us turn to facts. It has been observed that railroad
enterprises are a source of wealth to those who control them in a
much less degree than to the State. The observation is a true
one; and it might have been added that it applies, not only to
railroads, but to every industry.
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