[12] The First Edition of the ‹Harmonies Économiques› appeared in
1850.—«Translator.»
[13] The author employs the term ‹prolétaire›, for which we have no
equivalent word, to distinguish the man who lives by wages from the
man who lives upon realized property—“les hommes qui n’ont que leurs
bras, les salariés.”—‹See post›, Chap. X.—«Translator.»
[14] I shall explain this law by figures: Suppose three periods
during which capital increases, labour remaining the same. Let the
total production at these three periods be as 80—100—120. It will be
thus divided:
Capitalist’s Labourer’s Total.
share. share.
First Period, 45 35 80
Second Period, 50 50 100
Third Period, 55 65 120
Of course these proportions are merely given for the sake of
illustration.