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Man cannot create material things. In the mental and moral world indeed he may produce new ideas; but when he is said to produce material things, he really only produces utilities; or in other words, his efforts and sacrifices result in changing the form or arrangement of matter to adapt it better for the satisfaction of wants. All that he can do in the physical world is either to readjust matter so as to make it more useful, as when he makes a log of wood into a table; or to put it in the way of being made more useful by nature, as when he puts seed where the forces of nature will make it burst out into life.1
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Marshall, A. (2013). Production. Consumption. Labour. Necessaries. In: Principles of Economics. Palgrave Classics in Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375261_7
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