It is certain that they inflict on the consumer all the evils of dearness.

It is not certain that the producer gets the profit.

Why?
Because if they diminish the supply they also diminish the _demand_.
This proves that in the economical arrangement of this world there is a moral force, a _vis medicatrix_, which in the long run causes inordinate ambition to become the prey of a delusion.
Pray, notice, sir, that one of the elements of the prosperity of each special branch of industry is the general prosperity.

The rent of a house is not merely in proportion to what it has cost, but also to the number and means of the tenants.

Do two houses which are precisely alike necessarily rent for the same sum?
Certainly not, if one is in Paris and the other in Lower Brittany.