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.

-William Petty

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It Were Good To Know How Much

William Petty

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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Bears

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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