Why?
Because the principle of remuneration is in labor; because he who works for another renders a service, and ought to receive a service.

If no one paid for stockings, they would cease to be made; and, with the scarcity, the price would not fail to reappear.
The sophism which I am now combating has its root in the infinite divisibility which belongs to _value_, as it does to matter.
It appears, at first, paradoxical, but it is well known to all mathematicians, that, through all eternity, fractions may be taken from a weight without the weight ever being annihilated.

It is sufficient that each successive fraction be less than the preceding one, in a determined and regular proportion.
There are countries where people apply themselves to increasing the size of horses, or diminishing in sheep the size of the head.

It is impossible to say precisely to what point they will arrive in this.

No one can say that he has seen the largest horse or the smallest sheep's head that will ever appear in the world.