In manufactures, one manufactory succumbs only so far as the total of national labor replaces what it produced, _with an excess_.

Imagine a state of affairs where for one man, stretched on the plain, two spring up full of force and vigor.

If there is a planet where such things happen, it must be admitted that war is carried on there under conditions so different from those which obtain here below, that it does not even deserve that name.
Now, this is the distinguishing character of what they have so inappropriately called an _industrial war_.
Let the Belgians and English reduce the price of their iron, if they can, and keep on reducing it, until they bring it down to nothing.

They may thereby put out one of our furnaces--kill one of our soldiers; but I defy them to hinder a thousand other industries, more profitable than the disabled one, immediately, and, as a necessary consequence of this very cheapness, resuscitating and developing themselves.
Let us decide that supremacy by labor is impossible and contradictory, since all superiority which manifests itself among a people is converted into cheapness, and results only in giving force to all others.

Let us, then, banish from political economy all these expressions borrowed from the vocabulary of battles: _to struggle with equal arms, to conquer, to crush out, to stifle, to be beaten, invasion, tribute_.