The nation will be supplied with its necessaries, according to the proportion which this produce bears to the number of its inhabitants ;which proportion is regulated ;(1.) By the skill and judgment with which its labour is applied. (2.) By the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and of those who are not so employed. P. 2. Upon the former of these, the abundance, or scantiness of this supply seems principally to depend. For among savage nations of hunters and fishers, where all labour, there is the greatest want ;whereas in civilised states, though multitudes do not labour, all are oftea abundantly supplied.
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