150 ON THE MEASURE OF VALUE.

are fourteen distinct reiterations of the same
piece of information. Column 8 is merely
another enumeration of results obtained by
simple operations in the rule of three. Itshows
the quantities of labour which 100 quarters of
corn would command, at the different rates according
 to which labour is rewarded in the
third column.
Column 9 is a similar enumeration of results,
obtained in the same manner, and exhibits the
quantity of labour which the products of the
labour of 10 men in column 1 would respectively
command, or the value of those aggregate quantities
 estimated in labour.
This cursory review evinces, that the formidable
 array of figures in the table yields not
a single new or important truth; and that the
seventh column, which was intended to afford
the grand result of this tabular argument, exhibits
 merely a constant repetition of one of the
assumptions on which the whole is built¥,

See Note F.