This is the case whenever its utility to man is not due to labour. A thing can be useful, and the product of human labour, without being a commodity. Whoever directly satisfies his wants with the produce of his own labour, creates, indeed, use-values, but not commodities. The property which the magnet possesses of attracting iron, became of use only after by means of that property the polarity of the magnet had been discovered. This is quite in accordance with the spirit of a language that likes to use a Teutonic word for the actual thing, and a Romance word for its reflexion.
Nothing can have an intrinsick value.
This remarkable anonymous work written in the last century, bears no date. It is clear, however, from internal evidence that it appeared in the reign of George II, about 1739 or 1740.