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Quote #10
In the place of the pompous catalogue of the 'inalienable rights of man' there steps the modest Magna Carta of the legally limited working day, which at last makes clear 'when the time which the worker sells is ended, and when his own begins'.(10.7.7)
Marx is saying that the 18th century declarations of rights—which were based on the idea of the inalienable rights of man—were pompous documents that were not as practically useful as the successfully passed, modest law limiting the length of the working day that gave people more time to spend away from work.