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[PREFACE]
THE BOOK AND AUTHOR
When a reviewer wishes to give special recognition to a
book, he predicts that it will still be read "a hundred
years from now." THE LAW, first published as a pamphlet in
June, 1850, is already more than a hundred years old. And
because its truths are eternal, it will still be read when
another century has passed.
Frederick Bastiat, (1801-1850) was a French economist,
statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during
the years just before--and immediately following--the
Revolution of February 1848. This was the period when
France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a
Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying
and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared. And
he explained how socialism must inevitably degenerate into
communism. But most of his countrymen chose to ignore his
logic.
THE LAW is here presented again because the same
situation exists in America today as is the France of 1848.
The same socialist-communist ideas and plans that were then
adopted in France are now sweeping America. The
explanations and arguments then advanced against socialism
by Mr. Bastiat are--word for word--equally valid today. His
ideas deserve a serious hearing.
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