The market would be so much understocked with labour in the one case, and so much overstocked in the other, as would soon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumstances of the society required.

在一种情况下，市场上劳动力存货严重不足，而在另一种情况下，劳动力存货过多，很快就会迫使其价格回到社会环境所需要的适当水平。