Note 230 — Chapter II · : ADAM SMITH (continued 2)

“Each of those different branches of trade, however, is not only advantageous, but necessary and unavoidable, when the course of things, without any constraint or violence, naturally introduces it,” says he, after giving an exposition of the respective advantages of the various forms of economic activity. (Wealth of Nations, Book II, chap. 5; Cannan, vol. i, p. 352.)