Troplong believes in Providence, but surely he is not its man.
He will not discover the formula of association clamored for
today by minds disgusted with all the protocols of combination
and rapine of which M. Troplong unrolls the picture in his
commentary. M. Troplong gets impatient, and rightly, with those
who wish to enchain everything in texts of laws; and he himself
pretends to enchain the future in a series of fifty articles, in
which the wisest mind could not discover a spark of economic
science or a shadow of philosophy. IN OUR MANIA, he cries, FOR
REGULATING EVERYTHING, EVEN THAT WHICH IS ALREADY CODIFIED! . . .
. I know nothing more delicious than this stroke, which paints
at once the jurisconsult and the economist. After the Code
Napoleon, take away the ladder! . . .
"Fortunately," M. Troplong continues, "all the projects of change
so noisily brought to light in 1837 and 1838 are forgotten today.
The conflict of propositions and the anarchy of reformatory
opinions have led to negative results.
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