Discovery Can Give No Right Of Ownership,

The Value Of A Thing Is The Amount Of Laboring Or Work That Its Possession Will Save The Possessor.

It Is Too Narrow An Understanding Of Production Which Confines It Merely To The Making Of Things. Production Includes Not Merely The Making Of Things, But The Bringing Of Them To The Consumer. The Merchant Or Storekeeper Is Thus As Truly A Producer As Is The Manufacturer, Or Farmer, And His Stock Or Capital Is As Much Devoted To Production As Is Theirs.

There Are People Into Whose Heads It Never Enters To Conceive Of Any Better State Of Society Than That Which Now Exists.

He Who By An Exertion Of Mind Or Body, Adds To The Aggregate Of Enjoyable Wealth, Increases The Sum Of Human Knowledge, Or Gives To Human Life Higher Elevation Or Greater Fullness - He Is, In The Larger Meaning Of The Words, A " Producer," A " Working Man," A " Laborer," And Is Honestly Earning Honest Wages.

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.