It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years unto what use each soil is proper all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.
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Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
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Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
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If great cities are naturally apt to remove their seats, I ask, which way I say, in the case of London it must be westward... If it follow from hence that the palaces of the greatest men will remove westward, it will also naturally follow that the dwelling of others who depend upon them will creep after them.
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