All that they can do is to make it superfluous through some result acquired--to give air at the same time that they suppress the pump; to increase thus the force at our disposal, and, which is a remarkable thing, to render their pretended supremacy more impossible, as their superiority becomes more undeniable.
Thus, by a rigorous and consoling demonstration, we reach this conclusion: That _labor_ and _violence_, so opposed in their nature, are, whatever socialists and protectionists may say, no less so in their effects.
All we required, to do that, was to distinguish between _annihilated_ labor and _economized_ labor.
Having less iron _because_ one works less, or having more iron _although_ one works less, are things which are more than different,--they are opposites.

The protectionists confound them; we do not.

That is all.
Be convinced of one thing.

If the English bring into play much activity, labor, capital, intelligence, and natural force, it is not for the love of us.

It is to give themselves many comforts in exchange for their products.