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It has been shown in the First Book, that the price of the

greater part of commodities resolves itself into three parts, of

which one pays the wages of the labour, another the profits of

the stock, and a third the rent of the land which had been

employed in producing and bringing them to market: that there

are, indeed, some commodities of which the price is made up of

two of those parts only, the wages of labour, and the profits of

stock; and a very few in which it consists altogether in one, the

wages of labour; but that the price of every commodity

necessarily resolves itself into some one or other, or all, of

those three parts; every part of it which goes neither to rent

nor to wages, being necessarily profit to some body.