Profits , indeed, imply proportions; and the rate of profits had always justly been estimated by a per centage upon the value of the advances .» ( T. R. Malthus «Definitions in Political Economy…», Londres, 1827, pp. 29-30)
26. «But wages hat uniformly been considered as rising or falling, not according to any proportion which they migth bear to the whole produce obtained by a certain quantity of labour, but by the greater or smaller quantity of any particular produce received by the labourer, or by the greater or smaller power which such produce would convey, of commanding the necessaries and conveniencies of life.» ( ibidem , p. 30)
26. «Profit of Stock [15] […] consist of the difference between the value of the capital advanced, and the value of the commodity when sold or used.» ( ibidem , páginas 240-241)
26. «… revenue […] is expended with a view to immediate support and enjoyment, and […] capital […] is expended with a view to profit.» ( ibidem , p. 86) [traducción alemana de Karl Marx , «Das Kapital», t. III, Berlin, 1959, p. 57].
26. «… two instruments […) used for purposes distinctly different, one to assist in obtaining wealth, the other to assist in consuming it.» ( ibidem, p . 94)
26. «… increases [16] his master’s wealth .» ( T. R. Malthus «Principles on Political Economy…», Londres, 1836, p. nota)
26. «The only productive consumption, properly so called, is the consumption or [17] destruction of wealth by capitalists with a view to reproduction… The workman whom the capitalist employs certainly consumes that part of his wages which he does not save, as revenue, with a view to subsistence and enjoyment; and not as capital, with a view to production. He is a productive consumer to the person who employs him , and to the state, but not, strictly speaking to himself.» (T. R. Malthus «Definitions in Political Economy…» by John Cazenove, Londres, 1853, p. 30) [traducción alemana de Karl Marx , «Das Kapital», t. 1, Berlín, 1961, página 601].
27. «No political economist of the present day can be saving mean mere hoarding; and beyond this contracted and inefficient proceeding, no use of the term in reference to the national wealth can well be imagined, but that which must arise from a different application of what is saved, founded upon a real distinction between the different kinds of labour maintained by it.» ( T. R. Malthus «Principles of Political Economy…», Londres, 1836, pp. 38-39) [traducción alemana de Karl Marx , «Das Kapital», t. I, Berlín, 1961, p. 618].
27. « Accumulation of Capital . The employment of a portion of revenue as capital. Capital may therefore increase without an increase of stock or wealth .» ( T. R. Malthus «Definitions in Political Economy…» by John Cazenove, Londres, 1853, p. 11) [traducción alemana de Karl Marx , «Das Kapital», t. I, Berlín, 1961, página 607].
27. «Prudential habits with regard to marriage carried to a considerable extent, among the labouring classes of a country mainly depending upon manufactures and commerce, might injure it,» (T. R. Malthus «Principles of Political Economy…», Londres, 1836, p. 215) [traducción alemana de Karl Marx , «Das Kapital», t. I, Berlín, 1961, p. 663].
27. «It is the want of necessaries which mainly stimulates the labouring classes to produce luxuries; and were this stimulus removed or greatly weakened, so that the necessaries of life could be obtained with very little labour, instead of more time being devoted to the production of conveniences, there is every reason to think that less time would be so devoted.» ( ibidem , p. 334)
27. «… from the nature of a population, and increase of labourers cannot be brought [486] into the market, in consequence of a particular demand, till after the lapse of sixteen or eighteen yean, and the conversion of revenue into capital by saving, may take place much more rapidly; a country is always liable to an increase