"By the way, have you had time to read Bastiat's partly posthumous volume, 'Les Harmonies Economiques'? If not, do so; it will require a studious perusal, but will repay it. He has breathed a soul into the dry bones of political economy, and has vindicated his favourite science from the charge of inhumanity with all the fervour of a religious devotee."
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Richard Cobden to John Bright (1 October 1851), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (1881; 1905), p. 561
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