These fears seem to M. Blanc neither serious
nor well-founded: he awaits the test calmly, very sure that
society will not go out of his way to contradict him.
And such complex and intricate questions as those of taxation,
credit, international trade, property, heredity,--has M. Blanc
fathomed them? Has he solved the problem of population? No, no,
no, a thousand times no: when M. Blanc cannot solve a difficulty,
he eliminates it. Regarding population, he says:
As only poverty is prolific, and as the social workshop will
cause poverty to disappear, there is no reason for giving it any
thought.
In vain does M. de Sismondi, supported by universal experience,
cry out to him:
We have no confidence in those who exercise delegated powers. We
believe that any corporation will do its business worse than
those who are animated by individual interest; that on the part
of the directors there will be negligence, display, waste,
favoritism, fear of compromise, all the faults, in short, to be
noticed in the administration of the public wealth as contrasted
with private wealth.
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