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Quotation from The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
“Existence, faculties, assimilation--in other words, personality, liberty, property--this is man.”
The Law, Opening section, on life and its faculties, trans. Anonymous (Putnam, 1874)
Bastiat's definition of the three elements of the human person that precede all legislation.
Citation: "Existence, faculties, assimilation--in other words, personality, liberty, property--this is man." — Frédéric Bastiat, The Law, Opening section, on life and its faculties, trans. Anonymous (Putnam, 1874). (id bastiat-the-law-q2)
Portrait: Bastiat, Émile Desmaisons. Lithograph by Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé., Public domain.
