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But when the division of labour has once been thoroughly

introduced, the produce of a man's own labour can supply but a

very small part of his occasional wants. The far greater part of

them are supplied by the produce of other men's labour, which he

purchases with the produce, or, what is the same thing, with the

price of the produce, of his own. But this purchase cannot be

made till such time as the produce of his own labour has not only

been completed, but sold. A stock of goods of different kinds,

therefore, must be stored up somewhere, sufficient to maintain

him, and to supply him with the materials and tools of his work,

till such time at least as both these events can be brought

about.