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or in what is purchafed with thai produce from 
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other nations.”” 
¢¢ Labour (he fays) is alone the ultimate and real 
ftandard, by which the value of all commodities 
can at all times and places be eftimated and com- 
6 pared. It is their real price. Money is their no- 
¢¢ minal price only.—Again, labour, it muft be always 
remembered, and not any particular commodity, 
or fet of commodities, is the real meafure of the 
value both of filver and of all other commodities.”’* 
This leads us to enquire, what is it that princi- 
pally influences and determines the value of labour? 
The anfwer feems to be, the wants of the labourer. 
Tn what do thefe wants confift? The moft preffing 
and indifpenfable is food; after which may be recke 
oned, in our climate, clothing, firimg, and a habira- 
tion; but thefe are not equally indifpenfable with the 
former; nor are they applicable to our prefent pur- 
pofe. Human Foon is the great mover of the vaft - 
machine /abour, which regulates the value of all its 
productions, and of all the necefflaries and comforts 
of life. ‘ Human food,” alfo, as it is remarked by 
the excellent author before quoted, “* feems to be 
“ the only produce of land which a/ways, and nece/- 
“ farily, affords fome rent to the landlord; other forts 
“of produce fometimes may, and fometimes may 
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* Wealth of Nations, vol. i. pages 1, 39, and 234. 
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