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414 THE FREEMAN Julywealth and overall freedom of thecommunity are simultaneously reduced,because without efficiency,wealth is reduced, and without responsibility,freedom is reduced.If men would remain free, theymust demand that they and theirneighbors retain the right of responsibility.They must resist theattempts of men who would seekto escape both freedom and responsibilityby lowering theircompetition from other participantsin the market. Ownership isfree, but not cheap. The same istrue of freedom. I)• FOOTNOTES •1 Ludwig von Mises, Human Action(3rd ed.; Chicago: Regnery, 1966), pp.311-12.2 Cf. Robert A. Nisbet, Social Changeand History (New York: Oxf9rd UniversityPress, 1969), ch. 4; Louis I. BredvoId,The Brave New World of the Enlightenment(Ann Arbor: University ofMichigan Press, 1961).3 The concept of the public schools asAmerica's only establis·hed church isbrought forcefully in Sidney E. Mead'sThe Lively Experiment (New York:Harper & Row, 1963), ch. 4. Cf. R. J.Rushdoony, The Messianic Character ofAmerican Education (Nutley, New Jersey:Craig Press, 1963).4 The separation of church and state,it must be stressed, came to the Americancolonies quite early; Rhode Island acceptedthe principle from the beginning.But orthodox Connecticut was forced toadopt it as a result of the religious tumultcaused by the Great Awakening of themid-eighteenth century; it was broughtinto existence by Christians, not secularistsor the tiny handful of Unitarians andDeists: Richard L. Bushman, From Puritanto Yankee (Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniversity Press, 1967), ch. 13.5 Paul Craig Roberts, "The PolycentricSoviet Economy" The Journal of Lawand Economics, XII (April, 1969): HerbertS. Levine "The Centralized Planningof Supply in Soviet Industry," (1959), inWayne A. Leeman (ed.), Capitalism,Market Socialism, and Central Planning(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963); GaryNorth, "The Crisis in Soviet EconomicPlanning," Modern Age, XIV (Winter,1969-70) .6 Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy(New Rochelle, New York: ArlingtonHouse, [1944] 1969).7 Gary North, "Statist Bureaucracy inthe Modern Economy," THE FREEMAN(Jan., 1970).8 Murray N. Rothbard, 1\Jlan, Economyand State (Los Angeles: Nash, [1962]1971), p. 4.9 R. J. Rushdoony, The One and theMany (Nutley, New Jersey: Craig Press,1971), surveys the history of this vitallyimportant philosophical problem". Heargues that modern philosophers preferto avoid discussing the issue because theyhave been able to find no secular answerto it.10 Mises, Socialism (New Haven,Conn.: Yale University Press [1922]1951), pp. 275-76.11 Ibid., p. 276.12 Mises, Human Action, pp. 683-84.13 Richard Schlatter, Private Property:The History of an Idea (New Brunswick,New Jersey: Rutgers UniversityPress, 1951), p. 81.14 Ibid., pp. 86-87.15 Mises, Human Action, p. 683.16 Historical Statistics of the UnitedStates: Colonial Times to 1957 (Washington,D. C.: Bureau of the Census,1960), p. 636 (explanation of statisticson p. 619).17 Harold Underwood Faulkner, AmericanEconomic History (5th ed.; NewYork: Harper & Bros., 1943), p. 656.