CHAPTER IV. 



AUXILIARY PRODUCTION. 



741. As thus far considered production has been con 

 ceived as comprehending the making of those things only 

 which, in themselves, satisfy certain of the desires. But a 

 large part of the things men produce are not included among 

 these, and come under the head of auxiliary productions 

 productions which have no values in themselves but have 

 values only as aiding men to make things that yield imme 

 diate satisfactions. 



Production and auxiliary production take their rise simul 

 taneously. Flint-scrapers, valueless in themselves, were 

 useful only for shaping wood or cleaning skins ; and pointed 

 sticks employed for digging up roots were of worth only as 

 aids to sustentation. Hence, as here understood, the making 

 of flint-scrapers or pointed sticks was a process of auxiliary 

 production. And so with the bows and arrows, the bone 

 fish-hooks, &c., which each savage made for himself. 



But the auxiliary production now to be contemplated does 

 not exist so long as the producer and the auxiliary producer 

 are one. It originates only when a separate kind of worker, 

 no longer a producer in the primary sense, becomes a pro 

 ducer in the secondary sense, by occupying himself in mak 

 ing one or other aid to production. 



742. The rise of the auxiliary producer is obviously in 



part coincident with the rise of the division of labour; and 



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