In fact, it is impossible for me to separate the word fraternity from the word voluntary. I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed, and thus justice being legally trampled underfoot.
Et, en effet, il m'est tout à fait impossible de séparer le mot fraternité du mot volontaire. Il m’est tout à fait impossible de concevoir la Fraternité légalement forcée, sans que la Liberté soit légalement détruite, et la Justice légalement foulée aux pieds.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, July 07, 2020
Compulsory Association
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), The Law, tr. Dean Russell: