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The masters of mankind
But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about. These gradually furnished the great proprietors with something for which they could exchange the whole surplus produce of their lands, and which they could consume themselves without sharing it either with tenants or retainers. All for ourselves and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. As soon, therefore, as they could find a method of consuming the whole value of their rents themselves, they had no disposition to share them with any other persons.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/wealth-of-nations/book03/ch04.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/wealth-of-nations/book03/ch04.htm
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