ALL W will rem after he of the ch or a doze The fir will be i Crusoe; i and there. respect to a thing to and over it "I smiled drug!' said worth to me CHAPTER I. THE THREE GREAT BAGS OF MONEY. ALL who have read "Robinson Crusoe" (and who h will remember the circumstance of his opening, so after he had become domiciled on his desolate isla of the chests that had come to him from the ship. found pins, needles and thread, a pair of large scisso or a dozen good knives," some cloth, about a dozen an of white linen handkerchiefs concerning which he "They were exceedingly refreshing to wipe my fa warm day;" and, finally, hidden away in the till of t "three great bags of money—gold as well as silver.' The finding of all these articles-the money exce will be further remembered, greatly delighted the Crusoe; inasmuch as they increased his store of usefu and therefore increased his comfort and happiness. respect to the money the case was entirely different. a thing to him, under the circumstances, absolutely w and over its presence and finding he soliloquized as "I smiled at myself at the sight of all this money drug!' said I, aloud, 'what art thou good for? Thou worth to me, no, not the taking off the ground. One те инисить оппи ап musra ple a manner to him who renation in respect to the nature med "wealth;" or so good a in respect to the origin and 1"money." And in such reaing propositions is too evident the scissors, knives, and cloth on Crusoe, because their posseson his part to have them, and nd happiness. nevertheless possessed no ex- could not be bought or sold, hanged with any body for any price, for they had no purchasessed as money. pularly regarded as the symbol wealth, had, under the circumr price. It could not be eaten, exchanged with any body for ne appellation which Crusoe in , worthless stuff" nives, cloth, and scissors were Cousiuer could be change, THE first island was this increas inasmuch a bers of whi quired in co Atkins and the island, w creased, a ne compatibility personal inde and share in soon taught, available for creased, and t stead of each Com poco stiu, atquc value, become an object change, and constitute a standard for establishing prices CHAPTER II. A NEW SOCIAL ORDER OF THINGS. THE first person that came to join Robinson Crusoe island was Friday, and next, Friday's father. But eve this increase of numbers there was still no use for the n inasmuch as the three constituted but one family, the bers of which labored and shared all useful things th quired in common, and made no exchanges. But wher Atkins and the English sailors came, and the populati the island, we may suppose, was largely and permanen creased, a new social order of things became inevitable compatibility of taste and temper, and a natural desi personal independence, soon made it impossible for all and share in common as one family. And self-intere soon taught, that, in order that the quantity of useful available for the new community as a whole might creased, and their quality perfected, it was desirable, t stead of each man endeavoring to supply all his own e a pure savage, and simply ould make no exchanges. For obtained from the wreck raised what the ship brought him-the were capital, or the accumulated he ship had given him nothing, every thing for himself" his ering, his bread, his meat with blows of his hatchet, his hatchet hammer heaven knows how " pite of himself, because all his ed, and would have only sufficed, ce. ALL been m one co other co knives much sk of excha which sti cieties, th ey; and for price, commodit But the by experi ter, so ser r and the exchange of products time on the island, came in, and ing on all fected machinery of production, ing. And it is also to be here ies and services now for the first ey also for the first time acquired lue. W complete tion and somewhat Twist, w all at once pended wor effect an e heating his as the baker |