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Rh of reasoning which has been proclaimed exceedingly keen, JAMES MILL, the father of the well-known English economist, John Stuart Mill, says: "Whatever . . . be the amount of the annual produce, it never can exceed the amount of the annual demand . . . Of two men who perform an exchange, the one does not come with only a supply, the other with only a demand; each of them comes with both a demand and a supply. . . . The supply which he brings is the instrument of his demand; and his demand and supply are of course exactly equal to one another. It is therefore, impossible that there should ever be in any country a commodity or commodities in quantity greater than the demand, without there being, to an equal amount, some other commodity or commodities in quantity less than the demand."