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Abstinence (n.) is what the savage does not practise when he makes his bows — and the more society progresses, the more abstinence is demanded.
Abstinence (n.) is Senior's word for capital — the replacement of an economic category by a sycophantic phrase, and that is all.
The Factory (n.) at first ran round the clock: only the bother of cleaning machines and paying a double staff of overseers ended the twenty-four-hour day in English cotton mills.
Fixed capital (n.) idles whenever a worker stops: a labourer laying down his spade idles eighteen pence of capital, a mill hand leaving the mill idles a hundred pounds.
Wage (n.) are the worker's principal interest, meaning what he receives, the nominal sum, and not what he gives, the quantity of labour.
The Working day (n.) yields the factory's whole net profit only in its last hour, Senior argued — so shorten it and profit vanishes.