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-l56 OJ Populat;"" PTflfJision,
plOled, or who, by the division of lands in the country,
81'e stitled to the exclusive possession of certain
parts of them. By this contrivance all things pro ..
ceed well. The occupier of the gr.ound ~es from
it . the utmost that he can procure, because he is Fepaid
for wbat be can spare by something ehe which
he wants, or with whicb he is please6l: the artist or
manufacturer, though he have neither any property
in the soil, nor any concern in it" cultivation. is reg ..
because he gives, in
ularly sappliE'd 'Rith the p~uce ~
excha~~~ for what be . tands in need of~ s0mething
upon w"..kb the ret eivel' places an equal value: and
the commuDity is kept quiet, while both sides are engaged
-in their respectiye occupations.
'- It ~p~, then, that the business of ~ne Ilalf ~f
. maDkind IS, to set the other half at work ~ that IS,
to provide articles which, by tempting the desires,
may stimulate the industry, and can forth the actiVity
of those, upon the exertion of whose indu.
try, ani the application of whose facultiefi, the production
of human provision depends. J A -certain
It. appears also, that it signifies _
portion only of human la~ur is, of can be PTodlidive;
the rest is instrumental-both equal1y necessary
~ toough the one have no other object than to ex ..
cite the other. ~
nothing as to -Ahe main purpose of trade, 110W
superfluous the art ides which it furnishes are; .wheth-
. er the want. of thelube real or imagin.ry ; .·wheth..
er it be founded ia nature or in opinion, in fasbjon~
habit, or emulation ; .it is ellough that they be actually
desired . and sought after.' Flourishing cities
are -raised and supported by trading in tobacco: pop-
\pIous towns ~sist by the rnanufact~1J of
t'
ribbons.
~ watch may be a 'Very unnecessary appendage
~e dress of a peasant; Jet if the peasant will till the
~ound· in order to obtain a watdi, the true design
of trade is answered: and the watch-maker, while
be polishes the ca~e, !or files tbe wheels of his ma· .
chine, is contributing to the production of corn as
effectually, though not so directly, as if he handled
the spade, or held the plough The use of tobacco