Manchester, 23 August 1867 

Dear Moor, 

I have now worked through as far as sheet 36° approx., and I 
congratulate you on the comprehensive way in which the most 
complex economic problems are elucidated simply and almost 
sensuously merely by arranging them suitably and by placing them 
in the right context. Likewise, in respect of subject-matter, on the 
quite splendid exposition of the relationship between labour and 
capital—for the first time here in its full context and complete. I 
was also greatly diverted to see how you have worked your way 
into the language of technology, which must surely have given you 
much trouble and on which account J had various miscivines. I have 
corrected several suis oF THE PEN in pencil in the margin, and also 
ventured to make a few conjectures. But how could you leave the 

4 of the first volume of Capital 

outward structure of the book in its present form! The 4th chapter 
is almost 200 pages long and only has 4 sub-sections, indicated by 
four headings in ordinary print, which it is hardly possible to 
refer back to. Furthermore, the train of thought is constantly 
interrupted by illustrations, and the point to be illustrated is never 
summarised after the illustration, so that one is for ever plunging 
straight from the illustration of one point into the exposition of 
another point. It is dreadfully tiring, and confusing, too, if one is 
not all attention. It would have been highly desirable here to have 
subdivided the text more frequently and to have made the most 
important sections stand out more,** and this must emphatically 
be done for the English version. In this exposition (especially of 
cooperation and manufacture) there are indeed several points that 
are not yet quite clear to me, where I cannot work out which facts 
lie behind the argument that is expressed solely in general terms. 
To judge by the outward form of the exposition, this 4th chapter 
also appears to be the most hurriedly written and the least 
carefully revised. However, all that is of no import, the main thing 
is that our economists are not given a weak point anywhere 
through which they can shoot holes; I am indeed curious to hear 
what these gentlemen will say, they have not been left even the 
smallest opening. Roscher and his ilk will not be unduly 
perturbed, but for the people here in England who do not write 
for 3-year-olds, it is a different matter altogether. 

I very much look forward to your sending me some more sheets 
as soon as you can, I particularly want to read the section on 
accumulation in its context.*” 

Give your wife my best wishes. When are the girls coming 
back? * 

Your 
F. E.