Regulate monopoly, bridle competition? It is impossible; you
would kill production.
Open new markets? It is impossible.[28]
Organize credit? It is impossible.[29]
Attack heredity? It is impossible.[30]
[28] See volume II., chapter IX.
[29] Ibid., chapter X.
[30] Ibid., chapter XI.
Create national workshops, assure a minimum to unemployed
workmen, and assign to employees a share of the profits? It is
impossible. It is in the nature of government to be able to deal
with labor only to enchain laborers, as it deals with products
only to levy its tithe.
Repair, by a system of indemnities, the disastrous effects of
machinery? It is impossible.
Combat by regulations the degrading influence of parcellaire
division? It is impossible.
Cause the people to enjoy the benefits of education? It is
impossible.
Establish a tariff of prices and wages, and fix the value of
things by sovereign authority? It is impossible, it is
impossible.
Of all the reforms which society in its distress solicits not one
is within the competence of power; not one can be realized
by it, because the essence of power is repugnant to them all, and
it is not given to man to unite what God has divided.
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