[209] Ibid., Book IV, chap. 1; vol. i, p. 421.
[210] Wealth of Nations, Book I, chap. 8; Cannan, vol. i, p. 68. The masters possess the advantage in discussion (1) because they can combine much more easily; (2) because, thanks to their superior funds, they can afford to wait while “many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment.”
[212] Ibid., Book IV, chap. 7, part ii, the beginning; vol. ii, p. 67.
[213] Say, speaking of the working classes, remarks: “Are we quite certain that the workman obtains that share of wealth which is exactly proportioned to the amount which he has contributed to production?” (Treatise, 6th ed., p. 116.)
[214] Wealth of Nations, Book IV, chap. 9, in fine; Cannan, vol. ii, p. 184.
[215] Ibid., Book V, chap. 2, part i; vol. ii, p. 304. He makes exception only of the post-office, “perhaps the only mercantile project which has been successfully managed by, I believe, every sort of government.” (P. 303.)
[216] Ibid., Book II, chap. 3; vol. i, p. 328.
[217] Ibid., Book V, chap. 2, part ii, art. 1; vol. ii, p. 318.
[218] Ibid., Book V, chap. 3; vol. ii, p. 413.