No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.


Book I, On Production, Chapter II, p. 65 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832)

Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents...

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents...

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents...

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents...