So much the better, if these two powers are really antagonistic; and may the struggle soon be ended! But if they are in harmony, the struggle is the greatest evil which can be inflicted on society.

You see, then, workmen, that there is not a more important question than this: "Is the interest of capital lawful or not ?" In the former case, you must immediately renounce the struggle to which you are being urged; in the second, you must carry it on bravely, and to the end.
Productiveness of capital--perpetuity of interest.

These are difficult questions.

I must endeavor to make myself clear.

And for that purpose I shall have recourse to example rather than to demonstration; or rather, I shall place the demonstration in the example.