But since that saving, they, for the prime cost of ten
millions two hundred thousand pounds, receive the same
sum of eleven millions. By the saving in question, they
have become at once richer in capital, and poorer in
revenue. For the two hundred thousand pounds which
they have added to the one, they have sustained a greatly
overpassing loss ; for they have taken two hundred thou-
sand, and that yearly, from the other. It might be safe
and profitable for one capitalist, or a certain fractional
number of them, to accumulate. But a general accu-
mulation cannot take place, save at the expense of the
general revenue of capitalists. It is true that, so long
as agriculture is in progress, there might be yearly ad-
ditions to the returning or replacing power, by which as
large, or a larger revenue, might be afforded to a still
enlarging capital. But whjen the progress of agriculture
becomes slow and difficult, or, most of all, when it
touches upon the extreme limit, then the impotency of

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accumulation on the part of capitalists must be severeljf
felt. Each new investiture, in fa(!t, will then be followed
up by an adverse reaction, or recoil upon themselves.
As they grow in capital, they will decline in revenue.
