
P.-J. Proudhon, “How Business is Going in France…” (1859) (translation in progress)
Our goal is to teach the people, in a series of publications of which we give today the specimen, to know, through the observation of phenomena and with the help of the light that every man carries in his consciousness, the reason and unreason of things; to form thus, regarding all the objects of nature and of society that interest him the most, a set of correct ideas and, for all the circumstances where freedom intervenes, principles of action that do not mislead it: all philosophy is contained in these. […]