Certain kinds of rude produce, procured from very different sources, are, however, intended for the same kind of consumption; and hence it happens, the value of one determines and limits that of another—ibid.
The relations between values of different natures vary according to the state of society. This state is improving, declining, or stationary; that is to say, society is either increasing in wealth, or falling into poverty, or remaining in the same unchanged state of opulence.
Of the effects of these different states of society,
Upon the price of wages—book 1, chap. viii.
Upon the rate of profit—book 1, chap. ix.
Upon the value of the rude produce of the earth, and on that of the produce of manufacture—book 1, chap. xi.
Difference, in this respect, between the various kinds of rude produce, viz. 1. Those which the industry of man cannot multiply: 2. Those which his industry can always multiply in proportion to the demand: 3. Those over which human exertions have only an uncertain or limited influence—ibid.
PART SECOND.—OF STOCK AND ITS EMPLOYMENT.
Wealth, accumulated in the possession of an individual, is of two descriptions, according to its destination or employment: