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Had this state continued, the wages of labour would have

augmented with all those improvements in its productive powers,

to which the division of labour gives occasion. All things would

gradually have become cheaper. They would have been produced by a

smaller quantity of labour; and as the commodities produced by

equal quantities of labour would naturally in this state of

things be exchanged for one another, they would have been

purchased likewise with the produce of a smaller quantity.