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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

- Add to these,
according to circumstances, sundry optional co-operative services,[17]
such as subsidies granted to institutions of great public utility, for
which private contributions could not suffice, now in the shape of
concessions to corporations for which equivalent obligations are
exacted, and, again, in those hygienic precautions which individuals
fail to take through indifference; so occasionally, such provisional
aid as supports a man, or so stimulates him as to enable him some day
or other to support himself; and, in general, those discreet and
scarcely perceptible interpositions for the time being which prove so
advantageous in the future, like a far-reaching code and other
consistent regulations which, mindful of the liberty of the existing
individual, provide for the welfare of coming generations. Nothing
beyond that.
Again, in this preparation for future welfare the same principle still
holds.
VII.
Fabrication of social instruments. - Application of this principle.
- How all kinds of useful laborers are formed. - Respect for
spontaneous sources, the essential and adequate condition. -
Obligation of the State to respect these.


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