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THE METAPHYSICS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 191 the eve of each general reconstruction of society, the last word of social science will ever be:—
“Le combat ou la mort; la lutte sanguinaire ou le néant.
C’est ainsi que la question est invinciblement posée.”* GeroRrcE SAND.
Finis.
- Combat or death; bloody struggle or extinction.
It is thus that-the question is irresistibly put.
