... self-advantage and fear of disadvantage, tear of punishment and hope of reward,sense of honour and fear of disgrace and public contempt, love of activity and dislike of idleness, feeling of reverence for ... real, of his method. It was in virtue of this method, and by the light thrown by the type which he postulated, that Marx was able todiscover and define the social origin of profit, i.e. of surplus ... theinertia of the abstract but the force of a concrete fact,(8*) which has in regard to capitalist society, in Marx'sinvestigation, the function of a term of comparison, of a standard, of a type.(9*)This...