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A man grows rich by employing a multitude of manufacturers; he

grows poor by maintaining a multitude or menial servants. The

labour of the latter, however, has its value, and deserves its

reward as well as that of the former. But the labour of the

manufacturer fixes and realizes itself in some particular subject

or vendible commodity, which lasts for some time at least after

that labour is past. It is, as it were, a certain quantity of

labour stocked and stored up, to be employed, if necessary, upon

some other occasion. That subject, or, what is the same thing,

the price of that subject, can afterwards, if necessary, put into

motion a quantity of labour equal to that which had originally

produced it. The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary,

does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or

vendible commodity.