of about one hundred thousand other men. If he kept his wheat, it would
rot. If he kept his clothes, they would pass into speedy decay. By
spending one hundred and fifty million dollars he is enabled to secure
services which return an aggregate result of about one hundred and
sixty-five million dollars in a year. Men have eaten up his first one
hundred and fifty million dollars, but their works are worth one hundred
and sixty-five million dollars, and he has fifteen million dollars
profit. Suppose the men took his one hundred and fifty million dollars
away from him and ate it up and wore it out in a year, doing no work in
the mean time. At the end of the year they would begin starving if they
relied on him alone, and he would have neither one hundred and fifty
million dollars capital nor fifteen million dollars profit.