Mably, Abbé Gabriel Bonnot de, 35, 39 Mankind assimilation, 2 concern for, 54 degraded, 25 divided, 23 inert, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 35, 36, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 47 inertia, 44 as machine, 31 nature of, 33 violation of, 52 Melun, Armand de, 52 Mentor, 28, 29 Mimerel de Roubaix, Pierre Auguste Remi, 52 Monopoly, 5, 45 Montalembert, Charles, Comte de, 13, 15 Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondât, Baron de, 29, 31 Morality law and, 21, 22 Morelly, 41 Napoleon, 41 Natural rights, v Nature, gifts of, 1 Oliver de Serres, Guillaume Antoine, 29 Order, 3 Owen, Robert, 41 Ownership. See Property Paraguay, 30 Persia, 26 Personality, 2 Phalansteries, 55 Philanthropy. See Charity Plato republic, 30 Plunder absence of, 16 burdens of, 5, 6 defined, 17 general welfare and, 19 extralegal, 13 kinds, 13 legal, v, ix, 6, 13, 22 organized, 14 origin of, 6 partial, 15, 16 socialistic, 13 universal, 15, 16 Politicians dreams of, 36 genius of, 30 goodness of, 25 importance of, 22, 23 responsibility of, 27 social engineers, 22, 24, 32, 34, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45 superior, 46, 54 Politics exaggerated importance of, 8 and favors, vi plunder through, vi Poor relief. See Charity; Welfare Power. See Government Property man and, 2 origin of, 5 Protectionism, 18 United States, 12 Proudhonians, 46 Providence, 55 Public relief, 10, 20, 29 Raynal, Abbé Guillaume, 33, 35 Religion, State, 22 Rent seeking, vi, vii Republic kinds of, 29 virtues of, 39 Revolt, 6 Revolution, 47 French, 38 Rhodes, 32 Rights individual, v, 2, 3 Roberspierre, Jean Jacques government, 38 lawgiver, 40 Rome virtue, 32 Rousseau, Jean Jacques disciples, 8, 9 on the lawgiver, 31, 33 Saint-Cricq, Barthélémy, Pierre Laurent, Comte de, 50 Saint-Just, Louis Antoine Léon de, 38 Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, Comte de doctrine, 41 Salentum, 27, 29 Security consequences, 3 Self-defense, 2, 37, 49, 50 Selfishness, 5 Serres, Oliver de, 29 Slavery, United States, viii, 12 universality, 5 Socialism confused, ix, 22 defined, 14, 15 disguised, 22 experiments, 23, 24 legal plunder, 13 sincerely believed, 18 social engineers, 22, 24 refutation of, 15 Socialists, vii Society enlightened, 37 experiments, 23 motive force, 40, 43 object of, 36, 37 parable of the traveler, 54, 55 Solon, 33, 35 Sparta, 32, 36 Spoliation. See Plunder State. See Government Suffrage. See Universal suffrage