Real and personal property is in harmony with the social interest.
In consequence of literary property, social and individual interests are perpetually in conflict.
The statement of this proposition contains a rhetorical figure, common with those who do not enjoy full and complete liberty of speech.

This figure is the _anti-phrasis_ or _contre-verite_.

It consists, according to Dumarsais and the best humanists, in saying one thing while meaning another.

M.Wolowski's proposition, naturally expressed, would read as follows: "Just as real and personal property is essentially hostile to society, so, in consequence of literary property, social and individual interests are perpetually in conflict." 3.

M.de Montalembert, in the Chamber of Peers, vehemently protested against the assimilation of authors to inventors of machinery; an assimilation which he claimed to be injurious to the former.