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Wages, origin of, 75.

of labour, their limits, 103.

how regulated, 104. 127.

increase with increase of capital, 109.

decrease with increase of population, 110.
diminish with diminution of capital, 110.

impolicy of being fixed by law, 112.

low in Ireland, 117.

proportioned to skill, 118.

proportioned to the severity and disagreeableness of th
labour, 119.

how affected by scarcity, 116.

high, not always accompanying great capital, 124.

in China, 125.

in America, 125.

rise of, in England, 153.

high, encourage industry, 133.

lowered by poor-rates, 152.

component part of value, 164.

affected by adulteration of coin, 302.

effects of sudden increase of, 400.

Wealth, definition of, 22. 275.

accumulation of, 73.

reproduction of, 77. 84.

incitements to increase it, 393. 399.

effects of sudden increase of, 400.

Y.

Yeomanry, 225.

Young's, Arthur, Travels in France, passage from, on the extrem
division of landed property, 246.

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