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leged of society, nor does it consist in their 

 costly apparel, or in the gold and precious 

 stones of their jewelry, or in the heaps of 

 goods peeping through the show windows of 

 our great cities. All that as well as the coin 

 and bullion in the trunks and safes form but 

 an appendix or, so to speak, the tassels and 

 tufts, behind which is concealed that great and 

 real wealth — the rock on which our hope is 

 built. 



"What authorizes the people to believe in 

 the salvation from long ages of torture — nay, 

 not only to believe in, but to see it, and act- 

 ively strive for, is the fairy-like productive 

 power, the prodigious fertility of human la- 

 bor. In the secrets which have been wrung 

 from nature; in the magic formulas by which 

 we force her to do our wishes and to yield 

 her bounties almost without any painful work 

 ort our part; in the constantly increasing im- 

 provement of the methods of production — 

 in this I say consists the wealth which can 

 accomplish what no redeemer ever could." 



And Dietzgen, like Ward, protests against 

 this great legacy of history, this vast accumu- 

 lation of the results of the combined social 

 labor of a hundred generations, being the sole 

 property of those "who never achieved any- 

 thing!" 



