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In the fourth and last place, I shall endeavour to shew what are

the circumstances which regulate the rent of land, and which

either raise or lower the real price of all the different

substances which it produces.

CHAPTER VIII. OF THE WAGES OF LABOUR.

The produce of labour constitutes the natural recompence or wages

of labour. In that original state of things which precedes both

the appropriation of land and the accumulation of stock, the

whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer. He has neither

landlord nor master to share with him.