berty is more desirable for the strong and
confident while the child, the lost, the sick, the ignorant or feeble
person is looking for protection, reassurance and guidance. When society
consisted of strong independent farmers, hunters, warriors, nomads or
artisans backed by family and clan, liberty was an important idea. Today
few if any can rise above the horde and gain the insights, the wisdom
and the competence which once was such a common thing. Today the strong
seek promotion inside the hierarchy of the welfare state rest-house.
(S.R.)]

[Footnote 2216: This is just what Lenin could not believe when he read
this around 1906. Even Taine did not see how much a French government
organization depended upon staff recruited from a hardworking,
modest and honest French population. We have now lived to see how the
nationalization of private property in Egypt, Argentina, Algeria not
to speak of Ethiopia and India proved disastrous and how 40 years of
government ownership should degrade and corrupt the populations of
Russia, China, Yugoslavia, Albania etc. (SR).]

[Footnote 2217: When the function to be performed is of an uncertain or
mixed character the following rule may be applied in deciding
whether the State or individuals shall be entrusted with it; also in
determining, in the case of cooperation, what portion of it shall be
assigned to individuals and what portion to the State. As a general
rule, when individuals, either singly or associated together, have a
direct interest in, or are drawn toward, a special function, and
the community has no direct interest therein, the matter belongs to
individuals and not to the State. On the other hand, if the interest of
the community in any function is direct, and indirect for individuals
singly or associated together, it is proper for the State and not for
individuals to take hold of it.--According to this rule the limits of
the public and private domain can be defined, which limits, as they
change backward and forward, may be verified according to the changes
which take place in interests and preferences, direct or indirect.]

[Footnote 2218: Carlyle: "Cromwell's Speeches and Letters," III., 418.
(Cromwell's address to the Parliament, September 17, 1656.)]

[Footnote 2219: Seeley, "Life and Times of Stein," II., 143.--Macaulay,
"Biographical essays," Frederick the Great. 33, 35, 87, 92.]

[Footnote 2220: Eugene Schuyler, "Peter the Great," vol. 2.]

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