, is so inseparably mixed up with their property, as capital, to expand their own value, and to swallow up daily a definite quantity of the unpaid labour of others, that the head of the firm of Carlile and Co. actually imagines that if he sells his factory, not only will the value of the spindles be paid to him, but, in addition, their power of annexing surplusvalue, not only the labour which is embodied in them, and is necessary to the production of spindles of this kind, but also the surpluslabour which they help to pump out daily from the brave Scots of Paisley, and for that very reason he thinks that with the shortening of the workingday by hours, the sellingprice of spinning machines dwindles to that of Footnotes This elementary law appears to be unknown to the vulgar economists, who, upside down Archimedes, in the determination of the market price of labour by supply and demand, imagine they have found the fulcrum by means of which, not to move the world, but to stop its motion.