[Footnote 169-4: Missionaries! Besides the extremely small wages paid to common soldiers (in the German infantry only 36.5 thalers cash per annum, to which in Leipzig, for instance, rations, etc., add about 34 thalers more) is an outlay made by the government principally to effect a levy of the tax of the compulsory labor that lies in conscription. (_Knies._) In the volunteer system, the difference between officers and men is wont to be much smaller. Thus, _Gustav Wasa_ paid his German mercenaries as follows: 6 marks a month to captains, five to lieutenants and 4 to common soldiers. (_Geijer_, Schwed. Gesch., II, 125 seq.) Similarly in the case of the Greek hired troops. (_Böckh_, Staatshaushalt der Athener, I, 165 ff.) As to how little at the outbreak of a war, soldier earnest money is increased, and positions as officers most sought after, see _Hermann_, II, Aufl., 479.] [Footnote 169-5: Thus, for instance, the skinning or flaying of dead animals is comparatively well paid, to which the rarity of the application of the work of executioners contributes. (_J. Moser_, Patr. Ph., I, No. 34.) The high wages of actors, singers, dancers, and especially of the female members of the stage, depends principally on the contempt with which they were formerly looked upon; excommunicated by the Catholic church, and a scarcely milder sentence passed upon them by the Protestant, until about the middle of the eighteenth century. (_Schleiermacher_, Christliche Sitte, 681.) Compare even _J. J. Rousseau_, Lettre sur les Spectacles à Mr. d'Alembert sur son Article Genève.] [Footnote 169-6: _Schiller's_ "Theilung der Erde." _Blanqui_ says of the learned: "They are most frequently satisfied with a citizen-crown, and think themselves remunerated when justice has been done to their genius. Their magnanimity impels them, to their own injury, to diffuse their knowledge as rapidly as possible. Thus they are like the light of day which no one pays for, but which all enjoy, without thanking the giver as they ought." The reward of intellectual labor is called an _honorarium_. (_Riehl_, Die Deutsche Arbeit, 1861, 232.) According to _J. B. Say_, Traité, II, ch. 7, the poor wages of savants depends on the fact that they take to market, and all at once, a great quantity of what they produce, which cannot even be used up.]