Chapter I: Natural and Artificial Organization

[15] This Chapter was first published in the ‹Journal des Économistes›, January 1848.—«Editor.»

[16] Allusion to a socialist work of the day—‹La Reforme industrielle, ou la Phalanstère, par Ch. Fourier›.—«Translator.»

[17] ‹Métayage› is a mode of letting farms in the south of Europe, where the landlord furnishes a proportion of the means of cultivation, and shares the produce with the cultivator, or ‹métayer›.—«Translator.»

[18] “It is averred that the régime of free competition demanded by an ignorant Political Economy, and intended to do away with monopolies, tends only to the general organization of monster monopolies in all departments.”—‹Principes du Socialisme, par M. Considérant›, p. 15.