Men Of The Most Robust Make, Observe

Labor Was The First Price, The Original Purchase - Money That Was Paid For All Things.

The Annual Labour Of Every Nation Is The Fund Which Originally Supplies It With All The Necessaries And Conveniencies Of Life Which It Annually Consumes, And Which Consist Always Either In The Immediate Produce Of That Labour, Or In What Is Purchased With That Produce From Other Nations.

The Discipline Of Colleges And Universities Is In General Contrived, Not For The Benefit Of The Students, But For The Interest, Or More Properly Speaking, For The Ease Of The Masters. Its Object Is, In All Cases, To Maintain The Authority Of The Master, And Whether He Neglects Or Performs His Duty, To Oblige The Students In All Cases To Behave Toward Him As If He Performed It With The Greatest Diligence And Ability.

We Rarely Hear, It Has Been Said, Of The Combinations [that Is, Unions Or Colluding Organizations] Of Masters, Though Frequently Of Those Of Workmen. But Whoever Imagines, Upon This Account, That Masters Rarely Combine, Is As Ignorant Of The World As Of The Subject. Masters Are Always And Everywhere In A Sort Of Tacit, But Constant And Uniform Combination, Not To Raise The Wages Of Labor Above Their Actual Price.

The Man Who Barely Abstains From Violating Either The Person, Or The Estate, Or The Reputation Of His Neighbours, Has Surely Very Little Positive Merit. He Fulfils, However, All The Rules Of What Is Peculiarly Called Justice, And Does Every Thing Which His Equals Can With Propriety Force Him To Do, Or Which They Can Punish Him For Not Doing. We May Often Fulfil All The Rules Of Justice By Sitting Still And Doing Nothing.