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«In ten years, from 1842 to 1852 inclusive, the taxable income of the country, as nearly as we can make out, increased by 6 per cent; but in eight years, from 1853 to 1861, the income of the country again increased from the basis taken by 20 per cent. That is a fact so strange as to be almost incredible… I must say for one, I should look almost with apprehension and with pain upon this intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power, if it were my belief that it was confined to the classes who are in easy circumstances. This takes no cognizance at all of the condition of the labouring population. The augmentation I have described, and which is founded, I think upon accurate returns, is an augmentation entirely confined to classes of property. Now, the augmentation of capital is of indirect benefit to the labourer, because it cheapens the commodity which in the business of production comes into direct competition with labour. (Hear, hear.) But we have this profound, and, I must say, inestimable consolation, that while the rich have been growing richer the poor have been growing less poor. Whether the extremes of poverty are less extreme than they were I do not presume to say, but the average condition of the British labourer, we have the happiness to know, has improved during the last twenty years in a degree which we know to be extraordinary, and which we may almost pronounce to be unexampled in the history of any country and of any age. (Cheers.)

The Morning Star, April 17,1863

«I must say, for one, I should look with apprehension and with pain upon this intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power, if it were my belief that it was confined to the classes who are in easy circumstances. This great increase of wealth takes no cognizance at all of the condition of the labouring population. The augmentation is an augmentation entirely confined to classes of property. But that augmentation must be of indirect benefit to the labouring population, because it cheapens the commodities which go to the general consumption. So that we have this profound, and I almost say, inestimable consolation while the rich have been growing richer, the poor have been growing less poor. (Hear, hear.) At any rate, whether the extremes are less than they were I do not presume to say, but the average condition of the British labourer, we have the happiness to know to be extraordinary, and that we may almost pronounce it to be unexampled in the history of any country or any age. (Cheers.)

Das Kapital, I. Aufl., S. 639, Note 103

«From 1842 to 1852 the taxable income of the country increased by 6 per cent. In the eight years from 1853 to 1861, it had increased from the basis taken in 1853, 20 per cent! The fact is so astonishing as to be almost incredible…

… This intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power is entirely confined to classes of property, but must be of indirect benefit to the labouring population, because it cheapens the commodities of general consumption — while the rich have been growing richer, the poor have been growing less poor! At any rate, whether the extremes of poverty are less, I do not presume to say».

Здесь, в середине фразы, как показывает вышеприведенная перепечатка, «Теория вексельного курса» обрывает цитату, чтобы вставить цитату из Мольера; Маркс, который, как показывает сопоставление, ни в коем случае не мог взять цитату из «Morning Star», а, обозначив точками пропущенное им место, заимствовал его дословно из «Теории вексельного курса», заставляет Гладстона закончить в середине фразы…

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Из настоящего сопоставления ясно, что произвольно составленная мозаика вырванных из общей связи фраз, которую Маркс дает как бюджетную речь Гладстона, не находится ни в «Morning Star», ни в «Times», ни в «Хансарде», а ее можно найти только в «Теории вексельного курса». Приведенные выше фразы курсивом — это именно те, которые Генри Рой и — сравни последнюю фразу — тем более Карл Маркс пропустили, чтобы приписать Гладстону противоположное тому, что он сказал.