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Whatever part of his stock a man employs as a capital, he always

expects it to be replaced to him with a profit. He employs it,

therefore, in maintaining productive hands only; and after having

served in the function of a capital to him, it constitutes a

revenue to them. Whenever he employs any part of it in

maintaining unproductive hands of any kind, that part is from

that moment withdrawn from his capital, and placed in his stock

reserved for immediate consumption.