◆¹ As I said just now, its value, expressed in money, is according to the latest authorities about _ten thousand million pounds_.[14] As actual money, however, forms so minute a portion of this,—the reader will see that it is hardly more than one-fortieth,—we may, for our present purpose, pass it entirely over; and our concern will be solely with the things for which our millions are a mere expression. [Sidenote ◆1 But of three classes of things: the two first comprising things not susceptible of division;] ◆¹ It will be found that these things divide themselves into three classes. The first consists of things which, from their very nature, are not susceptible of any forcible division at all; the second consists of things which are susceptible of division only by a process of physically destroying them and pulling them into pieces; and each of these two classes, in point of value, represents, roughly speaking, nearly a quarter of the total. The third class alone, which represents little more than a half, consists of things which, even theoretically, could be divided without being destroyed. [Sidenote ◆1 The third class comprising all those things that could be divided without destroying them; and forming about half of the total.] ◆¹ We will consider this third class first, which represents in the estimates of statisticians _five thousand seven hundred million pounds_. The principal things comprised in it are land, houses, furniture, works of art, clothing, merchandise, provisions, and live-stock; and such commodities in general as change hands over the shopman’s counter, or in the market.[15] Of these items, by far the largest is houses, which make up a quarter of the capital value of the country, or _two thousand five hundred million pounds_. But more than half this sum stands for houses which are much above the average in size, and which do not form more than an eighth part of the whole; and were they apportioned to a new class of occupants, they would lose at least three-fourths of their present estimated value. So too with regard to furniture and works of art, a large part of their estimated value would, as we have seen already, disappear in distribution likewise: and their estimated value is about a tenth of the whole we are now considering. Land, of course, can, at all events in theory, be divided with far greater advantage; and counts in the estimates as _fifteen hundred million pounds_—or something under a sixth of the whole. Merchandise, provisions, and movable goods in general can be divided yet more readily; and so one would think could live-stock, though this is hardly so in reality: but of the whole these three last items form little more than a twentieth. [Sidenote ◆1 The results of dividing these would be ridiculous.]