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rally known. And as its importance will be becoming- every day more manifest, 
as society advances, the most simple, as well as the most complex processes may- 
be ultimately found to be preceded by an accumulation and appropriation of 
capital. These accumulations being- absolutely essential towards effecting the va- 
rious processes, to the influence of which the existing society looks for their means 
of subsistence, will be keenly sought, and will come, naturally enough, to be 
considered, as possessing in themselves, the incremental and reproductive pro- 
perty ; which property in reality, the vital principle, alone enjoys. The accumu- 
lations of capital, in causing a greater proportion of the results of the reproduc- 
tive power to be available to the use of man, cooperate with this principle ; and 
virtually, therefore, produce the same effects, in as far as man is immediately con- 
cerned in the result. It is, therefore, very natural, that productive capital should 
come to be considered the original and independent source of wealth, by persons 
not looking very deeply into the subject ; and it is quite certain, that in practice, 
accumulations of productively employed capital, will be considered equally impor- 
tant possessions, towards securing an income to their proprietors, as tracts of land, 
the matrix within which reproduction and increase are effected ; or as stores oi those 
very germs themselves, which are the depositaries of latent life j and the revenue, 
periodically falling to the use of capitalists, will be as confidently anticipated, and 
as regularly realized, as the income proceeding from the direct influence of that 
power which alone, in reality, reproduces and yields increase. 
II . — On the application of the Jaisalmir Limestone to the purposes of 
Lithography. 
In the 5th number of the Gleanings , for April, 1829, the first intimation of the 
discovery in India, of a substitute for the German lithographic stone, was given 
to the scientific world. At that time a confident hope was expressed, that the Jai- 
salmir stone would be found adapted for all the ordinary purposes of lithography, 
and even for the finer descriptions of work. The experience of nearly two years has 
fully realized the expectations then entertained ; during the above period, the stone 
has been extensively used, indifferently with the German lithographic stone, in the 
current routine of printing, and the perfection of the impressions obtained from the 
native material, is such, as to leave no doubt of its perfect utility. 
For fine chalk engravings, a description of work not much practised in India, 
the Jaisalmir stone is not exactly suited, but for all ordinary purposes in the wide 
range of art to which lithography is applied, there is no hesitation in pronouncing 
it a valuable auxiliary and substitute, for the more costly foreign article. 
At a time like the present, when the disturbed state of the continent threatens to 
interrupt, if not entirely to suspend our commercial relations with the country 
whence the lithographic stone has hitherto been almost exclusively procured 1 , 
it becomes matter of good policy, if not of weightier consideration, to shake of! 
a precarious dependence on foreign nations for this article of supply, and to draw 
on our own resources. The sending of lithographic stones to India, now that there is 
ample proof of the material existing in abundance in this country, will be an inju- 
dicious outlay of funds, which might, with greater benefit ana economy, be expended 
on the spot, devoid of the risks, uncertainty and delay, attendant upon indents to 
1 The best Lithographic stones are found in Bavaria. In France, also, an inferior 
description is met with j but it is little esteemed. 
