ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that values once produced maybe devoted, either to the satisfaction of the wants of those who have acquired theft, or to a further act of production. Amongst abundance of other causes of the misery and weakness of the couritries subjected to the Ottoman dominion, it cannot be doubted, that one of the principal is, the vast quantity of capital remaining in a state of inactivity. The general distrust and uncertainty of the induce people of every rank, from the peasant to the pacha, to withdraw a part of their property from the greedy eyes of power: and value can never be invisible, without being inactive. The silly admiration bestowed by the lower orders on the display of such idle and unproductive finery, is hostile to their own interests. The nation loses the annual revenue of so much capital, and the annual profit of the industry it might have kept in activity.
