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The lowering of profit in the town forces out stock to the

country, where, by creating a new demand for country labour, it

necessarily raises its wages. It then spreads itself, if I my say

so, over the face of the land, and, by being employed in

agriculture, is in part restored to the country, at the expense

of which, in a great measure, it had originally been accumulated

in the town. That everywhere in Europe the greatest improvements

of the country have been owing to such over flowings of the stock

originally accumulated in the towns, I shall endeavour to shew

hereafter, and at the same time to demonstrate, that though some

countries have, by this course, attained to a considerable degree

of opulence, it is in itself necessarily slow, uncertain, liable

to be disturbed and interrupted by innumerable accidents, and, in

every respect, contrary to the order of nature and of reason.