Evil and suffering exist everywhere, in the individual and in society, 467, 468. The social body not subject to inevitable decline, 468. De Custine's remarks on this subject quoted, ib., note. Society, like the human body, has a vis medicatrix, 469. Men approximate to a common level which is constantly rising, ib. Liberty implies possible error, and error possible evil, ib. Socialists' errors on this subject combated, 470, 471. Political Economy is not concerned to explain origin of evil, 471. Sufficient that evil and suffering exist, and have their mission, 472. Existence of free will proved by our consciousness of possessing it, 472, 473. Dr Johnson's opinion on this subject quoted, 473, note. Every action gives rise to consequences, of which some fall back on the agent, and others on his family or on society, hence responsibility and solidarity, 474. Responsibility applies to the person who acts, ib. We cannot even conceive of man as exempt from suffering, 474, 475. Our notions of sensibility and existence are inseparable, 475. Faith the necessary complement of our destinies, ib. Without sensibility we should be constantly exposed to death, ib. If, of the consequences following on action, the majority are bad and hurtful, such action tends to limit and restrain itself, 476. Ignorance gives rise to bad habits and bad laws, knowledge and experience to the reverse, ib. Mission of evil is to destroy its own cause and stimulate progress, 477. Responsibility has three sanctions,-natural, religious, and legal, 478. The first of these is fundamental, ib. Is an act vicious because revelation declares it so, or does revelation declare it so because its consequences are bad? ib. Bishop Butler's Sermons on Human Nature quoted, 478, note. If we had a religion which forbade acts proved to be useful, it could not be maintained, 479. All the power of the Church insufficient to enforce prohibition of interest, 480. False religions known from their obstructing advancement and progress, ib. Legal sanction should only give force and efficacy to natural sanction, ib. Where natural repression sufficient, legal repression should be avoided, 481. Law acts by means of force, and should not be applied to repress any particular form of religion, 481, 482. Other instances of the hurtful interposition of law, 482-485. Evils to which foundling hospitals have given rise, 485-487. Sense of responsibility capable of improvement, 487. Its development may be aided by female intervention, ib. Revolution of February, remarks on its consequences, 123-128. Revue des Deux Mondes quoted, 16. Reybaud, M. Louis, his notice of Bastiat referred to, 16.