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The mediation of preparing and acquiring means, likewise particularized, appropriate to particularized needs, is labour, which specifies, through the most manifold processes, the material immediately supplied by nature for these many purposes. This formation now gives to the means its value and its purposiveness, so that the human being, in his consumption, relates himself chiefly to human products, and it is such endeavours that he consumes.

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    Eduard Gans (Additions)

    The immediate material that need not be worked up is only slight: even the air one must acquire for oneself, in that one has to warm it; only water, perhaps, can be drunk just as one finds it. Human sweat and human labor acquire for the human being the means for [satisfying] need.

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