Chapter II: On the Just Wage

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¹ We were kindly given the opportunity to read this distinguished study before it appeared in the periodical Collationes Brugenses, vol. VI, January 1901. This was the more gratifying and welcome to us insofar as we saw confirmed there what we had discovered and written by our own effort, so that in this dissertation we can now appeal to the safest support: the authority of the Most Illustrious and most learned Bishop.