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original state to its final purpose, there arise a succession of 

 correlations, the terms of which are known as production and 

 consumption. How these terras are used will 1)e made clear 

 by a few illustrations: Primitive man produces flint from the 

 quarry and consumes it in making- the arrowheads which he 

 produces. With his arrowheads he produces rabbits; thus his 

 arrowheads are said to be consumed when they are lost or 

 destroyed, but there is still the production of rabbits from the 

 wold, and this production is consumed as food. 



The farmer purchases a tract of land covered with forest. 

 The forest land he converts into afield; the forest lie con- 

 sumes perhaps for fuel, and the fuel is the product which he 

 consumes for welfare, and the entelechv is reached. The field 

 remains, from which he grows corn, and at the harvest the 

 year's production of the field is consumed; but the corn remains 

 as a product, which is material for the miller, which he con- 

 sumes as miller's material by grinding it, thus producing- meal; 

 the meal is baked by the housewife, who consumes it as meal 

 in producing bread, and the bread is eaten by the farmer's 

 household and consumed, thus producing welfare, which is the 

 entelechy. 



The lumberman cuts logs in the forest; he consumes forest 

 trees and produces logs; the raftsman consumes them at the 

 place where they were produced and delivers them at the mill 

 as the product of his labor; the product is the log delivered 

 at the mill. The log is material for the miller, out of which he 

 produces lumber; logs are consumed and lumber is produced. 

 To the builder the product of the miller is material which the 

 builder consumes in the product of his labor, which is a house; 

 the domiciliary user consumes the house in welfare, and this 

 welfare is the entelechy. Maybe the lumber is used for 

 making- furniture, then lumber is consumed and furniture is 

 produced, and the furniture is consumed in the production of 

 welfare, which is the entelechy. 



The planter purchases a field on which he raises cotton; 

 the time of the field, that is, its power of producing for a year, 

 or, in othei" terms, the interest of the purchase money for the 

 field for a year, is consumed in the production of a crop. 



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