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an alteration of the ratio of value of one particular com-
modity to other commodities.” — Treatise on Pol. Econ.
translated by C. R. Prinsep, book ii, chap. 3.

NOTE B (page 61).
The source of such barren and paradoxical proposi-
tions as are noticed in the text, is to be found in the
notion of real value; and that notion being conceded as
a preliminary, these propositions logically follow from it.
We must look for the original fallacy therefore in the notion
itself, the intrinsic inconsistency of which has been already
sufficiently exposed.

NOTE C (page 70).
To avoid misconception it may be necessary to state,
that in this and the preceding chapter iv has been intended
simply to explain the nature of a rise in the value of labour
and a rise in profits, not the causes on which they depend,
or the way in which they actually take place. In main-
taining that there is no inconsistency in supposing a simul-
taneous rise of labour and of profits, I profess not to en-
ter into the question whether such a rise does ever or can
ever take place, but contend solely, that im cases of im-
proved productive power, the product might be so divided,
that the rate of profits should be increased, while the
value of labour was enhanced ; and that this would be ne-