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 goes to labour decreases, the proportion which goes to profits must increase in the same degree.

Thus if ¾ of the produce, whatever that produce may be, go to labour, ¼ will remain for profits; if $5/6$ go to labour, $1/undefined$ will remain for profits; and if ½ only go to labour, ½ will remain for profits.

In reference to corn or commodities in general, compared with each other at different periods in the progress of cultivation, it is obvious that neither an increase in the quantity of labour required to produce them, nor an increase in the quantity of produce awarded to the labourer, can ever determine the proportion