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But if this is sufficiently evident, even with regard to an

individual, it is still more so with regard to a society. The

amount of the metal pieces which are annually paid to an

individual, is often precisely equal to his revenue, and is upon

that account the shortest and best expression of its value. But

the amount of the metal pieces which circulate in a society, can

never be equal to the revenue of all its members. As the same

guinea which pays the weekly pension of one man to-day, may pay

that of another to-morrow, and that of a third the day

thereafter, the amount of the metal pieces which annually

circulate in any country, must always be of much less value than

the whole money pensions annually paid with them.