The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.


The Complete Works of Henry George: perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer (ed. 1911)

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The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the...

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the...

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the...

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the...