Note 402 — Chapter I · : SISMONDI AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CRITICAL SCHOOL

“Everyone’s interest if checked by everybody else’s would in reality represent the common interest. But when everyone is seeking his own interest at the expense of others as well as developing his own means, it does not always happen that he is opposed by equally powerful forces. The strong thus find it their interest to seize and the weak to acquiesce, for the least evil as well as the greatest good is a part of the aim of human policy.” (Ibid., p. 407.) Cf. also infra, p. 188, note 1.