Note 10 — NOTICE OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT.

“God made the country; and it is perhaps in surveying plains, and meads, and mountains, remote from man, that the mind is most elevated to pure and high contemplations. But cities, temples, and the memorials of past ages, bridges, aqueducts, statues, pictures, and all the elegancies and comforts of the town, are equally the work of God, through the propensities of His creatures, and, we must presume, for the fulfilment of His design.”—Sir Charles Bell on the Hand, ch. 3.