If English Money Was Of

The Factors Left Out Of The Ricardian Equation Are Falling Wages And Idle Capacity.

The Last Point For Consideration Is The Supposed Disposition Of The People To Interfere With The Rights Of Property. So Essential Does It Appear To Me, To The Cause Of Good Government, That The Rights Of Property Should Be Held Sacred, That I Would Agree To Deprive Those Of The Elective Franchise Against Whom It Could Justly Be Alleged That They Considered It Their Interest To Invade Them.

Gold And Silver, Like Other Commodities, Have An Intrinsic Value, Which Is Not Arbitrary, But Is Dependent On Their Scarcity, The Quantity Of Labour Bestowed In Procuring Them, And The Value Of The Capital Employed In The Mines Which Produce Them.

For Price Is Everywhere Regulated By The Return Obtained By This Last Portion Of Capital, For Which No Rent Whatever Is Paid.

After All The Fertile Land In The Immediate Neighbourhood Of The First Settlers Were Cultivated, If Capital And Population Increased, More Food Would Be Required, And It Could Only Be Procured From Land Not So Advantageously Situated.