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Quotation from The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
“the relations between mankind and the legislator appear to be the same as those which exist between the clay and the potter.”
The Law, Section on the legislator and classical education, trans. Anonymous (Putnam, 1874)
Bastiat's summary of the view he finds in Fénelon, Rousseau, Mably and the revolutionaries.
Citation: "the relations between mankind and the legislator appear to be the same as those which exist between the clay and the potter." — Frédéric Bastiat, The Law, Section on the legislator and classical education, trans. Anonymous (Putnam, 1874). (id bastiat-the-law-q6)
Portrait: Bastiat, Émile Desmaisons. Lithograph by Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé., Public domain.
