from that which reſults from the Law of Nature.
Things thus circumſtanced might have remained equal, if Men's Talents had been equal, and if, for Inſtance, the Uſe of Iron, and the Conſumption of Commodities had always held an exact Proportion to each other; but as this Proportion had no Support, it was ſoon broken. The Man that had moſt Strength performed moſt Labour; the moſt dexterous turned his Labour to beſt Account; the moſt ingenious found out Methods of leſſening his Labour; the Huſbandman required more Iron, or the Smith more Corn, and while both worked equally, one earned a great deal by his Labour, while the other could ſcarce live by his. It is thus that natural Inequality inſenſibly unfolds itſelf with that ariſing from a Variety of Combinations, and that the Dif-
