All Labour Is Directed Towards

The Love For Money Is Only One Among Many.

Consumption May Be Regarded As Negative Production.

The Most Reckless And Treacherous Of All Theorists Is He Who Professes To Let Facts And Figures Speak For Themselves.

I Admit That These Terms And The Diagrams Connected With Them Repel Some Readers, And Fill Others With The Vain Imagination That They Have Mastered Difficult Economics Problems, When Really They Have Done Little More Than Learn The Language In Which Parts Of Those Problems Can Be Expressed, And The Machinery By Which They Can Be Handled. When The Actual Conditions Of Particular Problems Have Not Been Studied, Such Knowledge Is Little Better Than A Derrick For Sinking Oil-wells Erected Where There Are No Oil-bearing Strata.

Material Goods Consist Of Useful Material Things, And Of All Rights To Hold, Or Use, Or Derive Benefits From Material Things, Or To Receive Them At A Future Time.