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What is Property?

CHAPTER IV
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These two modes of suicide are at first simultaneous; but soon the first is given additional force by the second, famine uniting with usury to render labor at once more necessary and more scarce.
By the principles of commerce and political economy, that an industrial enterprise may be successful, its product must furnish,--1.

The interest on the capital employed; 2.

Means for the preservation of this capital; 3.

The wages of all the employees and contractors.

Further, as large a profit as possible must be realized.
The financial shrewdness and rapacity of property is worthy of admiration.


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