101. Although money is the direct object in saving, and it
is, if we may call it so, the first foundation of capitals, yet
money and specie form but an insensible part is the total sum of
capitals.
We have seen what an inconsiderable part money forms in the
total sum of existing capitals, but it makes a very large one in
the formation of them. In fact, almost all savings are only in
money; it is in money that the revenue is paid to the
proprietors, that the advances and profits are received by the
undertakers of every kind; it is their money which they save, and
the annual increase of capitals happens in money; but all the
undertakers make no other use of it, than immediately to convert
it into the different kinds of effects on which their enterprizes
turn; thus, money returns into circulation, and the greater part
of capitals exist only, as we have already explained it, in
effects of different natures.
FINIS.
