◆¹ And now, supposing all these divisible things to be divided, let us see what the capital would look like which would be allotted to each individual. Each individual would find himself possessed of a lodging of some sort, together with clothes and furniture worth about _eight pounds_. He would have about _eight pounds_’ worth of provisions and miscellaneous movables, and a ring, a pin, or a brooch, worth about _three pounds ten shillings_. He would also be the proprietor of one acre of land, which would necessarily in many cases be miles away from his dwelling, whilst as to stocking his acre, he would be met by the following difficulty. He would find himself entitled to the twentieth part of a horse, to two-thirds of a sheep, the fourth part of a cow, and the tenth part of a pig. [Sidenote ◆1 The second class of things, comprising the national capital, could not be divided without destroying them.] [Sidenote ◆2 The remaining class of things could not be divided at all.] ◆¹ Such then would be the result to the individual of dividing the whole of our capital that could be divided without destroying it. This is, as we said, a little more than half of the total; and now let us turn to the two other quarters; beginning with the things which could be indeed divided, but which would obviously be destroyed in the process. Their estimated value is more than _two thousand million pounds_: half of which sum is represented by the railways and shipping of the kingdom; _six hundred million pounds_, by gasworks and the machinery in our factories; and the rest, by roads and streets and public works and buildings. ◆² These, it is obvious, are not suitable for division; and still less divisible are the things in the class that still remains. For of their total value, which amounts to some _two thousand five hundred million pounds_, more than _a thousand million pounds_, according to Mr. Giffen, represent the good-will of various professions of business; and the whole of the remainder—nearly _fifteen hundred million pounds_—represents nothing that is in the United Kingdom at all, but merely legal claims on the part of particular British subjects to a share in the proceeds of enterprise in other countries.