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15. It is, however, possible to train the body to manual skill without training the brain to anything like the same equivalent degree of mental efficiency. Now it is an elementary principle of economics that the market value of a commodity is governed by its scarcity. An article which is readily obtainable is cheap while an article difficult to acquire is dear. In the present state of human society, manual skill is far more common than mental efficiency, and consequently must command less remuneration. The alert and capable mind, ready for any emergency, enterprising and original in its conceptions and persevering in its execution of those conceptions, can demand and will receive its own price.