family, a poor commercial or agricultural leader, a bad distributor of labor and of subsistence, a bad regulator of production, exchanges, and consumption, a mediocre administrator of the province and the commune, an undiscerning philanthropist, an incompetent director of the fine arts, of science, of instruction, and of worship.[2208] In all these offices its action is either dilatory or bungling, according to routine or oppressive, always expensive, of little effect and feeble in returns, and always beyond or apart from the real wants it pretends to satisfy. The reason is that it starts from too high a point therefore extending over too vast a field. Transmitted by hierarchical procedures, it lags along in formalism, and loses itself in "red-tape." On attaining its end and object it applies the same program to all territories alike a program devised beforehand in the Cabinet, all of a piece, without experimental groping and the necessary corrections; * a program which, calculated approximately according to the average and the customary, is not exactly suited to any particular case; * a program which imposes its fixed uniformity on things instead of adjusting itself to its diversity and change; * a sort of model coat, obligatory in pattern and stuff, which the government dispatches by thousands from the center to the provinces, to be worn, willingly or not, by figures of all sizes and at all seasons. V. Final Results of Abusive Government Intervention Other consequences.--Suppressed or stunted bodies cease to grow.--Individuals become socially and politically incapable.--The hands into which public power then falls. --Impoverishment and degradation of the social body.