The best Labour sometimes useless 138 Labour not the same faculty as the faculty which directs Labour 140 Extraordinary confusion in current Economic Language 142 Labour a Lesser Productive Agent 144 Ability a Greater Productive Agent 145 The Vital Distinction between Ability and Labour 146 Ability not a form of Skilled Labour 148 Capital applied successfully the same thing as Ability 150 Obvious Exceptions 152 Ability the Brain of Capital 153 Ability as the Force behind Capital the Cause of all Progress 154 VI. Of the Addition made during the last Hundred Years by Ability to the Product of the National Labour. This Increment the Product of Ability— Production in the Last Century 156 Growth of Agricultural Products 158 Growth of Production of Iron 159 Ability and Agriculture in the Last Century 160 The Maximum Product that can be due to Labour alone 162 Present Annual Product of Ability in the United Kingdom 164 The Product of Capital virtually Product of the Ability of the Few 166 BOOK III AN EXPOSURE OF THE CONFUSIONS IMPLIED IN SOCIALISTIC THOUGHT AS TO THE MAIN AGENT IN MODERN PRODUCTION. I. The Confusion of Thought involved in the Socialistic Conception of Labour—