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Rh of the Proprietor and the wages of all the other labours to depend upon his labour alone. The Artisan, on the contrary, receives his wages, whether it be from the Proprietor or from the Cultivator, and gives them, in exchange for his labour, only the equivalent of these wages and nothing more.

Thus, although neither the Cultivator nor the Artisan gains more than the recompense of his labour, the Cultivator causes, over and above that recompense, the revenue of the Proprietor to come into existence; and the Artisan causes no revenue to come into existence either for himself or for others.

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This difference justifies their being distinguished as productive & barren class respectively.

We can then distinguish the two non-disposable classes as the productive class, which is that of the Cultivators, and the barren class, which includes all the other stipendiary members of the Society.

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How the Proprietors are able to draw the revenue from their lands.

The Proprietors who do not themselves till their lands can adopt various methods to get them cultivated, or make different arrangements with those who cultivate them.