When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman? (Jean-Baptiste Say)

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

Jean-Baptiste Say

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