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Chap. II. the distribution of wealth is to increase rent (and consequently to diminish the proportion of the produce which goes to capital and labor), in two ways: First, By lowering the margin of cultivation. Second, By bringing out in land special capabilities otherwise latent, and by attaching special capabilities to particular lands.

I am disposed to think that the latter mode, to which little attention has been given by political economists, is really the more important. But this, in our inquiry, is not a matter of moment.