The reader will bear in mind that the production of surplus-value, or the extraction of, is the specific end and aim, the sum and substance, of capitalist production quite apart from any changes in the mode of production, which may arise from the subordination of  to capital. He will remember that as far as we have at present gone, only the independent , and therefore only the  legally qualified to act for himself, enters as a vendor of a commodity into a contract with the capitalist. If, therefore, in our historical sketch, on the one hand, modern industry; on the other, the  of those who are physically and legally minors, play important parts, the former was to us only a special department, and the latter only a specially striking example of  exploitation. Without, however, anticipating the subsequent development of our inquiry, from the mere  of the historic facts before us, it follows:⚓✪