Accumulation--Productive and unproductive consumption--Use of capital--Credit--Security of property--Production applied to the satisfaction of common wants--Increase of comforts--Relations of capitalist and labourer 361 CHAPTER XXIV. Natural law of wages--State-laws regulating wages--Enactments regulating consumption--The labour-fund and the want-fund--Ratio of capital to population--State of industry at the end of the seventeenth century--Rise of manufactures--Wages and prices--Turning over capital 381 CHAPTER XXV. What political economy teaches--Skilled labour and trusted labour--Competition of unskilled labour--Competition of uncapitalled labour--Itinerant traders--The contrast of organized industry--Factory-labour and garret-labour-- Communism--Proposals for state organization of labour-- Social Publishing Establishment--Practical co-operation 398 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 1. African Hut 12 2. Robinson Crusoe (from a design by Stothard) 20 3. Dying lion 25 4. Penn's treaty with the Indians 33 5. Pine-marten 37 6. Treasure-finding 45 7. Brindley 63 8. The hock-cart 66 9. Adam Smith 71 10. "Under his own vine" 100 11. Centre of gravity 113 12. A tool made a machine 115 13. Spinning a rope 118 14. Analysis of a cable 119 15. Mill at Guy's Cliff 122 16. Oriental plough 126 17. Clod-crusher 132 18. Scarifier 133 19. Horse-hoe 134 20. Moveable steam-engine and thrashing-machine 135 21. Thrashing-machine with horse-power 136 22. Draining-tile machine 137 23. The first iron bridge, Colebrook Dale 147 24. Rolling bar-iron 149 25. File-cutters 152 26. Cupids forging arrows (from Albani) 156 27. Telford 162 28.