With each individual there is always an exact balance between what he puts into and what he draws out of the grand common reservoir; and if that is true of each individual, it is true of the nation in the aggregate.

The only difference between the two cases is, that in the latter, each one is in a more extended market for both his sales and his purchases, and has consequently more chances of doing well by both.
This objection is made: "If every one should agree that they would not withdraw from circulation any of the products of a specified individual, he in turn would sustain the misfortune of being able to draw nothing out.

The same of a nation." ANSWER .-- If the nation cannot draw out of the mass, it will no longer contribute to it: it will work for itself.

It will be compelled to that which you would impose on it in advance: that is to say, isolation.
And this will be the ideal of prohibitive government.

Is it not amusing that you inflict upon it, at once and already, the misfortune of this system, in the fear that it runs the risk of getting there some day without you?
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