HARMONY UNDERSTOOD

All discord, harmony not understood.

—ALEXANDER POPE

Prepared by Vernelia A. Crawford

The letter “n” following a number indicates a footnote.

A

Abundance, 113

Addison, Joseph, 96

Adversity, blessings of, 30-35

Amiel, Henri Frederic, 63, 151

Andrews, Donald Hatch, 2n, 3

Apelles, 24, 25, 29

Aristotle, 58

Authority, 152, 154, 162

Authorship, 32

B

Bacon, Francis, 134

Bailey, Gamaliel, 17

Bastiat, Frederic, 112, 113

Beecher, Henry Ward, 36

Romance of Reality (o.p.)

Pattern for Revolt

Instead of Violence

Outlook for Freedom (o.p.)

Government: An Ideal Concept

Governo Um Concito Ideal

Why Not Try Freedom?

¿Por Que No Ensayar la Libertad?

Elements of Libertarian Leadership

Anything That’s Peaceful

Todo Por la Paz

The Free Market and Its Enemy

El Enemigo del Mercado Libre

Deeper Than You Think

Leonard E. Read has been president of The Foundation for Economic Education since it was organized in 1946.

The Foundation is a nonpolitical, nonprofit, educational institution. Its senior staff and numerous writers are students as well as teachers of the free market, private ownership, limited government rationale. Sample copies of the Foundation’s monthly study journal, The Freeman, are available on request.

The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.(www.fee.org)

Irvington-on-Hudson, New York 10533

1981

HOW DO WE KNOW?

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding, doubles his view; and he who profits of a superior understanding, raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with.

—EDMUND BURKE

Edmund Burke (1729-97) here gives me reason enough for so frequently calling to my aid this great statesman and source of wisdom. He expertly counsels how understanding—knowledge—can be achieved.

READ GOOD BOOKS FOR IMPROVED THINKING

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own; and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

—JOHN RUSKIN

THE OPPONENT OF HAPPINESS

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

—THOMAS JEFFERSON

Reflect on what a great American was Jefferson (1743-1826). My Encyclopedia gives his record:

RIGHTEOUSNESS LEADS TO HAPPINESS

Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in having only right desires.

—SAINT AUGUSTINE

Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, wrote his autobiography entitled Confessions about 16 centuries ago. I am reliably informed that this gem has been and still is the most widely read autobiography ever written. People respond to excellence in another.