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The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, necessarily

increases with the increase of the revenue and stock of every

country, and cannot possibly increase without it. The increase of

revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand

for those who live by wages, therefore, naturally increases with

the increase of national wealth, and cannot possibly increase

without it.

It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its

continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of

labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in

the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the

fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is

certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any

part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much

higher in North America than in any part of England.