"The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings"
"Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time."
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Source: Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.
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