The Wealth of Nations by Part 1 Chapter 7 Page 27

advancing, stationary, or declining condition; but to remain the same or very nearly the same in all those different states.

I shall, in the third place, endeavour to explain all the different circumstances which regulate this proportion.

In the fourth and last place, I shall endeavour to show what are the circumstances which regulate the rent of land, and which either raise or lower the real price of all the different substances which it produces.