Of my particular, bodily and mental skills and my possibilities of activity, I can alienate individual products and a use limited in time from another,* because, by this limitation, they acquire an external relation to my totality and universality. Through the alienation of the whole of my time, as made concrete through work, and of the totality of my production, I would be making into another’s property the substantial element of these — my universal activity and actuality, my personality itself.

This is the same relation as above, in § 61, between the substance of a thing and its use; just as the latter is distinct from the former only insofar as it is limited, so too is the use of my powers distinct from the powers themselves, and hence from me, only insofar as it is quantitatively limited; – the totality of the manifestations of a power is the power itself, — of the accidents, the substance, — of the particularizations, the universal.

* [Handwritten:] i.e., the use that another can make of it.