Volume 1

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith.

  • Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Date:
1796
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ] A'jSr l N U I R Y INTO THE . NATURE ANu CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK. f r ^ h e annual labour of every nation is the fund introdua' Jj which originally fupplies it with all the ne- teflaries and convemencies of life which it annually confumes, and which confift always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in whac is purchafed with that produce from .other na- tions. According therefore, as this produce, or what is purchafed with it, bears a greater or fmaller proportion to the number of thofe who are to confume it, the nation will be better or worfc fupplied with all the neceflaries and convenienciea for which it has occafion, ^ • But this proportion muft in every nation be regulated by two different circumftances; firft, by the (kill, dexterity, and judgnrient with which VOL. r. s its