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Rent, it is to be observed, therefore, enters into the

composition of the price of commodities in a different way from

wages and profit. High or low wages and profit are the causes of

high or low price; high or low rent is the effect of it. It is

because high or low wages and profit must be paid, in order to

bring a particular commodity to market, that its price is high or

low. But it is because its price is high or low, a great deal

more, or very little more, or no more, than what is sufficient to

pay those wages and profit, that it affords a high rent, or a low

rent, or no rent at all.