it away from society. He wants to have the commodity in the form in which it is always capable of entering circulation and therefore he withdraws it from circulation. He dreams of exchange value and therefore does not exchange. The fluid form of wealth and its petrification, the elixir of life and the stone of wisdom madly haunt each other in alchemic fashion. In his imaginary unlimited passion for enjoyment he denies himself all enjoyment. Because he wishes to satisfy all social wants, he barely satisfies his elementary natural wants. While holding fast to his wealth in its metallic bodily form, the latter escapes him as a phantom. As a matter of fact, however, the hoarding of money for the sake of money is the barbaric form of production for production's sake, i. e., the development of the productive forces of social labor beyond the limits of ordinary wants. The lees the production of commodities is developed, the more important is the first crystallization of exchange value into money, or hoarding, which plays, therefore, an important part among the ancient nations,
est ainsi parceque l'argent est une richesse abstraite et parcque les hommes, en la possédant peuvent satisfaire à tous leur besoins de quelque nature qu'ils soient." ("Principes Fondamentaux de l'Economie Politique, tirés de leçons edites et inedites de N. W. Senior, par Comte Jean Arrivabene," Paris, 1836, p. 221. (The corresponding passage in the English edition of his Political Economy, London, 1863, is to be found on p. 27. Translator.) So does Storch: "Since money represents all other forms of wealth, it is only necessary to accumulate it to provide for oneself all kinds of wealth existing in the world." (l. c., v. 2, p. 134.)
