Kenneth Campbell wrote: You cannot let people have time... Yet I can think of nothing I would treasure more.
According to an anonymous author writing in a pamphlet published in 1821: "After all their idle sophistry, there is, thank God! no means of adding to the wealth of a nation but by adding to the facilities of living: so that wealth is liberty -- liberty to seek recreation -- liberty to enjoy life -- liberty to improve the mind: it is disposable time, and nothing more." According to Engels, Marx rescued that pamphlet from oblivion because it inspired Marx's concept of surplus value. Marx mentioned the pamphlet in his Grundrisse (page 706 in the 1973 Vintage Books edition) and, in some detail, in his notes published as the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63 (page 388-91 in Volume 32 Marx Engels Collected Works). According to Michael Perelman, the author of the pamphlet was apparently Charles Wentworth Dilke. Tom Walker 604 255 4812
