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When the landlord, annuitant, or monied man, has a greater

revenue than what he judges sufficient to maintain his own

family, he employs either the whole or a part of the surplus in

maintaining one or more menial servants. Increase this surplus,

and he will naturally increase the number of those servants.

When an independent workman, such as a weaver or shoemaker, has

got more stock than what is sufficient to purchase the materials

of his own work, and to maintain himself till he can dispose of

it, he naturally employs one or more journeymen with the surplus,

in order to make a profit by their work. Increase this surplus,

and he will naturally increase the number of his journeymen.