Labour produces alike both the finished goods and its implements.

But in proportion as machines or other contrivances, such as vessels, grow in size or complexity, and embody, as they do in their more modern developments, ingenuity of the highest and knowledge of the most abstruse kinds, the situation changes; and we are able to identify certain faculties as essential to the ultimate result, which affect the work of the labourers, but which do not emanate from themselves.

Any three men of average strength and intelligence might make a potter's wheel together, or build a small boat together, as they frequently do now, their several tasks being interchangeable, or assigned to each of them by easy mutual agreement.

The business of directing labour has not separated itself from the actual business of labouring.

Each man knows the object of what he does, and can co-ordinate that object with the object of what is done by his fellows.