The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour seems to have been the effects of the division of labour. To take an example from a very trifling manufacture: the trade of the pin-maker. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head. Ten men could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty.