Likewise of every other human contrivance for human satisfactions. In multitudinous detail it is an inexplicable mystery except to an all comprehensive body of experts, and even to them if they ignore the Basic Facts. Yet every complexity disappears when the details are assigned to their appropriate natural categories of Man as the sole producer, Natural Resources as the sole basis and source of production, and Artificial Objects as the product; or, reverting to technical Economic terms, when the confused details are appropriately assigned to Labor as the Productive power, to Land as the basis and source of Production, and to Wealth as the Product. All Economic details, from least to greatest, from simplest to most complex, from most familiar to most mysterious, throughout the labyrinthine intricacies of the Productive Process in Economics, are like the details in the Economic history of the house-wife’s needle of our illustration. What the points of the compass are to navigation, or the four fundamental divisions of arithmetic to mathematics, such are the three Basic Facts to the Productive Process in Economics. SIXTH LESSON DISTRIBUTION At the outset in this Lesson let the difference between Distribution of Wealth and delivery of Wealth be again emphasized. Delivery is part of the Productive Process to which the next preceding Lesson was devoted. No Wealth is finally produced until, finished for ultimate consumption, it has been produced to ultimate consumers by final delivery. Quite another thing is Distribution in the technical Economic sense. In this sense Distribution is the apportionment of Labor-produced Wealth in appropriate categories with reference to the Economic relationship of Labor to Land--of Man to Natural Resources. A better term than Distribution, since this term has been so much abused by giving to it the sense of delivery by transportation (a mere phase of Production), would probably be Division. But Distribution of Wealth has too long served as the technical term for the Economic division or sharing of Wealth, to be discarded offhand. Although the Distribution of Wealth in appropriate shares, with reference to the Economic relationship of Labor to Land, affects the sharing of Wealth by individuals, it does not completely dictate either the proportions or the magnitude of individual shares. These may be determined not only by natural Economic law but also by purchase, by common usage, by conventional inheritance statutes, by highway robbery, by forgery, by burglary, by petty theft, by “confidence” tricks, by lucky speculation or gambling games, by beggary, by “crooked business,” by generous gifts, by legal distortions, by taxation, by a thousand and one other influences, legitimate or illegitimate, outside the jurisdiction of natural Economic law. Radically different are those fundamental Economic apportionments in Distribution with reference to the natural relations of Labor to Land.