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As a man of a civil profession seems awkward in a camp or a

garrison, and is even in some danger of being despised there, so

does an idle man among men of business.

The highest ordinary rate of profit may be such as, in the price

of the greater part of commodities, eats up the whole of what

should go to the rent of the land, and leaves only what is

sufficient to pay the labour of preparing and bringing them to

market, according to the lowest rate at which labour can anywhere

be paid, the bare subsistence of the labourer. The workman must

always have been fed in some way or other while he was about the

work, but the landlord may not always have been paid. The profits

of the trade which the servants of the East India Company carry

on in Bengal may not, perhaps, be very far from this rate.