Malthus, Definitions in Political Economy, pp. Adam Smith, Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations, Vol. Capitals have different sizes. But the size of each individual capital.is equal to itself, hence, in so far as only its quality as capital is concerned, any size. But if we examine two capitals in comparison to each other, then the difference in their size introduces a relation of a qualitative characters.
Size becomes itself a distinguishing quality.
This is an essential aspect, of which size is only one single instance, of how the study of capital as such differs from the study of one capital in relation to another capital, or the study of capital in its reality. Malthus, Definitions in Political Economy, pp. See Malthus, The Measure of Value, p. 33. MacCulloch, The Principles of Political Economy, p. 300. Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy, p. 26. 75.