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change for his labour, and could not starve. 
It will be replied, perhaps, that corn is high 
too, and therefore, although labour is high, the 
labourer obtains little corn. But if corn and 
labour are both affirmed to be high, the asser- 
tion must mean, that they are high in relation 
to other commodities, as it is an absurdity to 
say, that they are both at once high in relation 
to each other. If therefore the labourer ob 
tains little corn, labour must be low in relation 
to corn. 
The same result will be obtained if the defi- 
nition of value is substituted for the term. 
The author's proposition then would be, it is 
perfectly consistent with a great power of com- 
manding commodities in exchange for his la- 
bour, that the labourer should be almost starv- 
ing, and perfectly consistent with a small 
power, that the labourer should be living in 
great ease and comfort.” This is asserting 
power to be in an inverse ratio to the effects 
produced *. 
See Note B.