Much old-school wisdom from William Graham Sumner, in his essay "State Interference" (1887), echoing Bastiat's The Law:
«The great engine of political abuse has always been political mysticism. Formerly we were told of the divine origin of the State and the divine authority of rulers. The mystical contents of “'sovereignty” have always provided an inexhaustible source of dogma and inference for any extension of State power. The new democracy having inherited the power so lon…
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