companies is chimerical, because it leads to violent battles." Dunoyer, instead, chose to rely on the "competition" of political parties within representative government—hardly a satisfactory libertarian solution to the problem of social conflict! He also opined that it was most prudent to leave force in the hands of the State, "where civilization has put it"—this is from one of the great founders of the conquest theory of the State!
Unfortunately, this critical issue was barely treated in the meeting, since the discussion largely centered on Dunoyer's and the other economists' criticizing Molinari for going too far in attacking all uses of eminent domain by the State. (See Journal des Economistes XXIV (October 15, 1849: 315–16.)
With this publication of Professor McCulloch's translation of Molinari's original article, let us hope that Molinari will now come to the attention of scholars and translators.
