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by the end of that period, it is a species of property
that could not be accepted of, unless by
the end of that period he possessed of to his
own satisfaction a sufficient certainty of being
able to
pass it on find other customers for it without loss.
For a person of the former class, its possession
the assurance of its currency would be a matter
of indifference: to a person of the latter class
that assurance would be im in a circumstance
altogether indispensable. Looking round him
then for customers who when the time comes
shall be ready to take the commodity off his hands,
he will find them distinguished into two classes..
the customers for permanent income, and the
class to which he himself belongs, the possessors
of temporary sums - the flying customers.
The demand on the part of the permanent
customers for permanent income is not liable
to fail: but in the othersthe quantity of the demand thus
created is limited, and the amount of it is
it may be thought, already satisfied. His
present dependence therefore will be on the persons
of his own class, the customers possessors of temporary
sums. Among them should it ever happen
that more of this paper money were wanted
to be disposed of than what could find persons
willing to accept of it, its value, and the price it
