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§43. An acre of land, that bears here twenty bushels of wheat, and another in America, which, with the same husbandry, would do the like, are, without doubt, of the same natural intrinsic value: but yet the benefit mankind receives from the one in a year, is worth 5l. and from the other possibly not worth a penny, if all the profit an Indian received from it were to be valued, and sold here; at least, I may truly say, not one thousandth. It is labour then which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing: it is to that we owe the greatest part of all its useful products; for all that the straw, bran, bread, of that acre of wheat, is more worth than the product of an acre of as good land, which lies waste, is all the effect of labour: for it is not barely the plough-man's pains, the reaper's and thresher's toil, and the baker's sweat, is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be charged on the account of labour, and received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials, as in themselves. It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up.
43.这里年产20蒲式尔(约为730升)小麦的一英亩(约为4000平方米)土地和美洲的一英亩土地,若用同样的方法耕种,获得的收成会差不多,没有疑问,它们具有同样的自然本身的价值;然而,人类一年从前者可获益5英镑,如果一个印第安人将所有的收成估价并在这里出卖,他可能得不到1便士(1英镑=100便士);如果允许我实说的话,不到千分之一。所以,是劳动将绝大部分价值加在土地上,若没有劳动它几乎将分文不值;我们将绝大部分有用的产品都归于劳动的作用;因为一英亩小麦所产的茎杆,麦麸,面包,远比一英亩同样好却荒芜的土地所产的物品多,都是劳动的结果;因为不仅仅耕地人的辛劳,收割人脱粒人的劳动,都要算进我们所食用的面包之中;那些驯养耕牛的人,那些采掘和冶炼铁矿石的人,那些砍伐和构造用于犁,磨,烤炉或其它用具的木料的人,这许许多多人的劳动,从播种到制成面包,只要是生产这种谷物所必需的,都必须算进劳动之中,并认为是劳动的结果;自然和土地本身提供的几乎都是没有价值的原料。如果我们追踪一下我们食用的每块面包的劳动所提供的东西,那么将会发现这是一个不太可理解的物品清单;铁,树,皮革,树皮,木头,石头,砖,煤炭,石灰,布料,染料,沥青,焦油,桅杆,绳索,以及所有造船的材料——船运来了其他工人制造的这件工作所需要的物品——完全列举几乎不可能,至少是太长。 |
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