So that, in a community where there was but one laborer, the farm-rent would be but 0.1; no matter how great the extent and value of the land appropriated.
Therefore, WITH A GIVEN LANDED CAPITAL, PRODUCTION IS PROPORTIONAL TO LABOR, NOT TO PROPERTY.
Guided by this principle, let us try to ascertain the maximum increase of all property whatever.
What is, essentially, a farm-lease?
It is a contract by which the proprietor yields to a tenant possession of his land, in consideration of a portion of that which it yields him, the proprietor.

If, in consequence of an increase in his household, the tenant becomes ten times as strong as the proprietor, he will produce ten times as much.

Would the proprietor in such a case be justified in raising the farm-rent tenfold?
His right is not, The more you produce, the more I demand.

It is, The more I sacrifice, the more I demand.

The increase in the tenant's household, the number of hands at his disposal, the resources of his industry,--all these serve to increase production, but bear no relation to the proprietor.