ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that the encrease of riches and commerce in any one nation commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbours. A state can scarcely carry its trade and industry very far, where all the surrounding states are buried in ignorance, sloth, and barbarism. The domestic industry of a people cannot be hurt by the greatest prosperity of their neighbours. As the branch of commerce is undoubtedly the most important in any extensive kingdom, people are so far removed from all reason of jealousy. The encrease of domestic industry lays the foundation of foreign commerce. Where a great number of commodities are raised and perfected for the home-market, there will always be found some which can be exported with advantage. Nature, by giving a diversity of geniuses, climates, and soils, to different nations, has secured their mutual intercourse and commerce, as long as they all remain industrious and civilized.
