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First, I shall endeavour to explain what are the circumstances

which naturally determine the rate of wages, and in what manner

those circumstances are affected by the riches or poverty, by the

advancing, stationary, or declining state of the society.

Secondly, I shall endeavour to shew what are the circumstances

which naturally determine the rate of profit; and in what manner,

too, those circumstances are affected by the like variations in

the state of the society.