Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.