Page Notice of the Life and Writings of Frédéric Bastiat, 9 To the Youth of France, 33 «Chapter I.» Natural and Artificial Organization, 47 II. Wants, Efforts, Satisfactions, 63 III. Wants of Man, 75 IV. Exchange, 97 V. Of Value, 131 VI. Wealth, 180 VII. Capital, 196 VIII. Property—Community, 218 IX. Landed Property, 249 X. Competition, 288 XI. Producer—Consumer, 323 XII. The Two Aphorisms, 339 XIII. Rent, 347 XIV. Wages, 352 XV. Saving, 393 XVI. Population, 397 XVII. Private and Public Services, 425 XVIII. Disturbing Causes, 446 XIX. War, 454 XX. Responsibility, 465 XXI. Solidarity, 488 XXII. Social Motive Force, 495 XXIII. Existence of Evil, 504 XXIV. Perfectibility, 508 XXV. Relations of Political Economy with Religion, 513 Index, 518 NOTICE OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT. «Frédéric Bastiat», whose last and greatest, though, alas! unfinished work—the ‹Harmonies Économiques›—I now venture to introduce to the English public, was born at Bayonne, on the 19th of June 1801. His father, an eminent merchant of Bayonne, died young, and his wife having died before him, Frédéric, their only child, was left an orphan at the early age of nine years. The care of his education devolved on his paternal grandfather, who was proprietor of a land estate near Mugron, in the arrondissement of Saint-Sever. His aunt, Mademoiselle Justine Bastiat, acted towards him the part of a mother, and her affection was warmly reciprocated by Bastiat, who, to the day of his death, never ceased to regard her with filial love and reverence.