[3] I assume the Cambridge quotation to be correct: in my old edition (1848), the distinction is between 'weavers and lace-makers' and 'journeymen bricklayers;' and making velvet is considered to be the production of a 'commodity,' but building a house only doing a 'service.' [4] I do not mean that there are no other kinds, nor that well-paid labour must necessarily be unproductive. I hope to see much done, some day, for just pay, and wholly productive. But these, named in the text, are the two opposite extremes; and, in actual life, hitherto, the largest means have been usually spent in mischief, and the most useful work done for the worst pay. [5] £992,740,328, in seventeen years, say the working men of Burnley, in their address just issued--an excellent address in its way, and full of very fair arithmetic--if its facts are all right; only I don't see, myself, how, "from fifteen to twenty-five millions per annum," make nine hundred and ninety-two millions in seventeen years. [6] Daily Telegraph, 30th January, 1871. [7] Carlyle's Frederick, Book IV., chap. iii. [8] Carlyle, Frederick, vol. i. p. 321 (first edition). [9] Song of Solomon 2 : 11-13 [10] Here is another curious instance: I have but a minute ago finished correcting these sheets, and take up the Times of this morning, April 21st, and find in it the suggestion by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the removal of exemption from taxation, of Agricultural horses and carts, in the very nick of time to connect it, as a proposal for economic practice, with the statement of economic principle respecting Production, quoted on last page. [11] Wordsworth, "Excursion," Book 4th; in Moxon's edition, 1857 (stupidly without numbers to lines), vol. vi., p. 135. [12] Read this, for instance, concerning the Gardens of Paris:--one sentence in the letter is omitted; I will give it in full elsewhere, with its necessary comments:-- "To the Editor of the Times. 5th April, 1871. "Sir,--As the paragraph you quoted on Monday from the Field gives no idea of the destruction of the gardens round Paris, if you can spare me a very little space I will endeavour to supplement it.