Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 163

All this is a jingling quibble, and not science. The truth, in plain terms, is this: that men consume cloth and corn by fire or by using them, and that the effect is the same _as regards price_, but not _as regards wealth_, for it is precisely in the use of commodities that wealth or material prosperity consists.

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