If the State may set up workshops to aid people who are short of food because the harvest has failed, why should it not do the same when people are short of food because trade is bad, work scarce, and wages intolerably low?
Morley critiques the inconsistency in government intervention during economic crises.
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I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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