ABSTRACT
It is not possible for man to waste matter, it is only possible for him to create or waste utilities by changing the form of matter.
But man is ever filled with a desire for new forms and kinds of goods. As his powers increase, and as his command of nature increases, he demands an ever increasing complexity of manufactured articles. His desires are without limit. He calls for houses of the most complicated description, for clothes and personal ornaments of constantly changing type and of great elaboration; he demands for the fuller enjoyment of his powers the constant use of an enormous range of utilities in the shape of prepared foods, furniture, utensils, books and papers, instruments of sport, musical instruments, vehicles, etc. The ever-growing facilities for the conduct of agriculture therefore serve to set free an increasing proportion of working people to devote themselves to manufacturing. The call for agricultural work has decreased, and must, relatively, decrease. The call for the products of industry is ever growing.
