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If it is to be let to a tenant for rent, as the house itself can

produce nothing, the tenant must always pay the rent out of some

other revenue, which he derives, either from labour, or stock, or

land. Though a house, therefore, may yield a revenue to its

proprietor, and thereby serve in the function of a capital to

him, it cannot yield any to the public, nor serve in the function

of a capital to it, and the revenue of the whole body of the

people can never be in the smallest degree increased by it.

Clothes and household furniture, in the same manner, sometimes

yield a revenue, and thereby serve in the function of a capital

to particular persons. In countries where masquerades are common,

it is a trade to let out masquerade dresses for a night.

Upholsterers frequently let furniture by the month or by the

year. Undertakers let the furniture of funerals by the day and by

the week.