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Adam Smith advantage amount annual product artificial augment bank beneficial benefit black population capital employed cause cent circulation citizens colonial commodities consequence consumed consumption corn crimes debtors depend diminished division of property doctrine dollars doubt earth effect employment England equal evil excise expenditure farmer foreign gold and silver greater human increase individual industry interest labour-saving land laws less loan manufacture manumission manumit means measure ment million moral national debt nature necessaries and comforts never object ordinary paid pauperism penitentiary perty political economy poor poor laws portion present principle private monopoly product of labour profits proportion public creditors public debt public wealth punishment quantity of labour racter raised reason revenue rich says slavery slaves Smith society species suppose taxation thing tion tional trade unequal division vidual Wealth of Nations whole