Mises Daily
Author:
Leonard E. Read
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[From Anything That’s Peaceful: The Case for the Free Market , 1964] As I sat contemplating the miraculous make-up of an ordinary lead pencil, the thought flashed in mind: I’ll bet there isn’t a person on earth who knows how to make even so simple a thing as a pencil. If this could be demonstrated, it would dramatically portray the miracle of