V.

All the professed economists holding chairs in America, and some in France, expound the absurdity of the Fiscal Policy of their respective Governments. In France, in most of the examinations for administrative Edition: current; Page: [x] posts there are papers in economics in which the candidates know that they must choose between the truth and the chance of an appointment. The Government requires a subservient political economy. In the name of liberty of conscience I demand the secularisation of economic science; for the conflict between Protection and economic science is the same in character as that between science and religion. When the State establishes an orthodox creed it makes lying a system and condemns its agents and officials to hypocrisy.