manufactured commodities, will divide this chapter into three parts.

===Part 1: Of the Produce of Land which always affords Rent===

As men, like all other animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence, food is always, more or less, in demand.

It can always purchase or command a greater or smaller quantity of labour, and somebody can always be found who is willing to do something in order to obtain it. The quantity of labour, indeed, which it can purchase is not always equal to what it could maintain, if managed in the most economical manner, on account of the high wages which are sometimes given to labour. But it can always purchase such a quantity of labour as it can maintain, according to the rate at which the sort of