9th Grade Essay – The Law

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Here's one of Grace's essays from her reading of The Law by Frederic Bastiat.

Bastiat here exposes the motive of all promoters of the State. This motive too often lies hidden, undiscovered, perhaps, even by the promoter himself, but here it is revealed. The true purpose of the State is to mold and shape men into a machine, thereby exalting and promoting itself and its legislators. For to whose whims are we subject? The wielder of the law is all-powerful and resistance of a minority is futile. Man is viewed by the State as a raw material to shape something great. It divides humans into two categories: one contains the human race in general, the other holds the legislator. A dictator supposes himself so superior to his fellow man that he never considers that he himself may need re-shaping, not his country. Never does he suspect that men may get along very well if left alone with their resources and their senses. He supposes that he must be like a god to them, teaching them, enslaving them, turning them into little mirror-images of himself, yet always weaker. Never does he wonder if they have an omnipotent God who cares for His creation.