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Rh of the world-market; still, there asserts itself here a deeper antagonism of principles which constantly recurs between true English and true French Political Economy. Boisguillebert sees, in fact, only the material substance of wealth, its use-value, the enjoyment of it, and considers the capitalistic form of labor, i. e. the production of use-values as commodities and the exchange of those commodities, as the natural social form in which individual labor attains its end. When he is, therefore, confronted with the specific character of capitalistic wealth as in the case of money, he sees in it the usurping interference of extraneous elements and gets into a rage about the capitalist system of labor in one form while utopian-like he praises it in another. Boisguillebert furnishes us with proof that one may