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 from that which reults from the Law of Nature.

Things thus circumtanced might have remained equal, if Men's Talents had been equal, and if, for Intance, the Ue of Iron, and the Conumption of Commodities had always held an exact Proportion to each other; but as this Proportion had no Support, it was oon broken. The Man that had mot Strength performed mot Labour; the mot dexterous turned his Labour to bet Account; the mot ingenious found out Methods of leening his Labour; the Hubandman required more Iron, or the Smith more Corn, and while both worked equally, one earned a great deal by his Labour, while the other could carce live by his. It is thus that natural Inequality inenibly unfolds itelf with that ariing from a Variety of Combinations, and that the