realizing it, would be a sufficiently useful achievement, to induce him to incur willingly all the chances of failure. It is requisite, however, to add, that although his object is practical, and, as far as the nature of the subject admits, popular, he has not attempted to purchase either of those advantages by the sacrifice of strict scientific reasoning. Though he desires that his treatise should be more than a mere exposition of the abstract doctrines of Political Economy, he is also desirous that such an exposition should be found in it. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 29 CHAPTER II. Of Labour, as an Agent of Production. § 1. Labour employed either directly about the thing produced, CHAPTER III. Of Unproductive Labour. § 1. Capital is wealth appropriated to reproductive employment 67 6. Capital is kept up, not by preservation but by perpetual 7. Why countries recover rapidly from a state of devastation CHAPTER VI. Of Circulating and Fixed Capital. CHAPTER VII. On what depends the Degree of Productive- Page CHAPTER IX. Of Production on a Large, and Production on a Small Scale. § 1. Advantages of the large system of production in manufactures 158 2. Advantages and disadvantages of the joint-stock principle 164 CHAPTER X. Of the Law of the Increase of Labour. § 1. The law of the increase of production depends on those of § 1. Means and motives to saving, on what dependent 194 CHAPTER XII. Of the Law of the Increase of Production from Land. Page 2. The law of production from the soil, a law of diminishing CHAPTER XIII. Consequences of the foregoing Laws. § 1. Remedies, when the limit to production is the weakness of 2. Necessity of restraining population not confined to a state of CHAPTER II. The same subject continued. 1. The institution of property implies freedom of acquisition by contract 225 |