PRODUCE BY SENDING BACK TO THE COUNTRY A CERTAIN POR-
TION OF IT MANUFACTURED AND PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE 
USE... ACCORDING TO THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS THE
GREATER PART OF THE CAPITAL OF EVERY GROWING SOCIETY IS,
FIRST, DIRECTED TO AGRICULTURE, AFTERWARDS TO MANUFAC-
TURES, AND LAST OF ALL TO FOREIGN COMMERCE... TO FORCE 
FROM A PARTICULAR SPECIES OF INDUSTRY SOME SHARE OF THE
CAPITAL WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE BE EMPLOYED IN IT; IS IN
REALITY SUBVERSIVE OF THE GREAT REPOSE WHICH IT MEANS 
TO PROMOTE. IT RETARDS, INSTEAD OF ACCELERATING, THE 
PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY TOWARDS REAL WEALTH AND 
GREATNESS; THERE IS IN EVERY SOCIETY OR NEIGHBORHOOD
AN ORDINARY OR AVERAGE RATE BOTH OF WAGES AND PROFIT 
IN EVERY DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENT OF LABOUR AND STOCK.
THIS RATE IS NATURALLY REGULATED PARTLY BY THE GENERAL
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SOCIETY, THEIR RICHES OR POVERTY,
THEIR ADVANCING, STATIONARY, OR DECLINING CONDITION; 

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