VIII. That thus the labourer and land-owner suffer together, the one
becoming enslaved as the other becomes impoverished.

If evidence be desired of the correctness of these propositions, it
may found in the history of Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mexico, and of every
other country that has declined in wealth and population.




CHAPTER VIII.

HOW MAN PASSES FROM WEALTH AND FREEDOM TOWARD POVERTY AND SLAVERY.


The views that have thus been presented are entirely in harmony those
of the illustrious author of "The Wealth of Nations." "In seeking for
employment to a capital," says Dr. Smith,

"Manufactures are, upon equal or nearly equal profits, naturally
preferred to foreign commerce, for the same reason that agriculture
is naturally preferred to manufactures. As the capital of the
landlord or farmer is more secure than that of the manufacturer, so
the capital of the manufacturer, being at all times more within his
view and command, is more secure than that of the foreign merchant.
In every period, indeed, of every society, the surplus part both of
the rude and manufactured produce, or that for which there is no
demand at home, must be sent abroad, in order to be exchanged for
something for which there is some demand at home. But whether the
capital which carries this surplus produce abroad be a foreign or