way”; and in the second case it cries to him from the mouths of the wisest and strongest men, “You will get no food unless you consent to labour in the best way.”[31] [Sidenote ◆1 Wage Capital is merely the means by which intellect impresses itself as Labour;] ◆¹ In other words, Wage Capital in the modern world promotes that growth of wealth by which the modern world is distinguished, simply because Wage Capital is the vehicle by which the exceptional qualities of the few communicate themselves to the whole industrial community. The real principle of progress and production is not in the Capital, but in the qualities of the men who control it; just as the vital force which goes to make a great picture is not in the brush, but in the great painter’s hand; or as the skill which pilots a coach and four through London is not in the reins, but in the hand of the expert coachman. [Sidenote ◆1 As we can see by following the steps by which a company would introduce some new machine.] ◆¹ This can easily be seen by turning our attention once again to machinery, and supposing that a company is floated for the improved manufacture of something by means of some new invention. The directors must of course begin with securing a site for the factory; but with this exception their entire initial expenditure will directly or indirectly consist in the payment of wages—in purchasing the services of a certain number of men by whose exertions certain masses of raw material are to be produced and fashioned into certain definite forms—that is to say, into the new machinery and a suitable building to protect it. [Sidenote ◆1 The whole success of such a company depends on the amount of intellect used in the expenditure of the Wage Capital.]