If, however, from peculiar circumstances, we were precluded from engaging capital in foreign trade, or in the carrying trade, we should, though with less advantage, employ it at home; and while there is no limit to the desire of conveniences, ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, there can be no limit to the capital that may be employed in procuring them, except that which bounds our power to maintain the workmen who are to produce them.