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of prospective economic gain for capitalists to organize it on a crudely 

 industrial basis, without regard to considerations of humanity or the 

 general wellbeing of the state. 



9. Of wage-earning labour on the part of freemen we have little 

 trace in tradition. The reported complaints of day-labour performed 

 for Patrician nobles in early times are probably not unconnected 

 with the institution of clientship, and in any case highly coloured by 

 rhetoric. 



