Profits Might Also Increase, Because Improvements Might

By Far The Greatest Part Of Those Goods Which Are The Objects Of Desire, Are Procured By Labour And They May Be Multiplied, Not In One Country Alone, But In Many, Almost Without Any Assignable Limit, If We Are Disposed To Bestow The Labour Necessary To Obtain Them.

The Exchangeable Value Of All Commodities Rises As The Difficulties Of Their Production Increase.

Money Is Neither A Material To Work Upon Nor A Tool To Work With.

Whenever, Then, The Usual And Ordinary Rate Of The Profits Of Agricultural Stock, And All The Outgoings Belonging To The Cultivation Of Land, Are Together Equal To The Value Of The Whole Produce, There Can Be No Rent.

In The Same Manner If Any Nation Wasted Part Of Its Wealth, Or Lost Part Of Its Trade, It Could Not Retain The Same Quantity Of Circulating Medium Which It Before Possessed.