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many difficulties, in every part of the kingdonti, and 

 its probable effects we have traced at fome length 

 before. It is true thefe aflbciations are, at prefent, 

 chiefly compofed of the more induftrious part of 

 the people, the lower clafs of tradefmenj but wc 

 have made ample allowance, as I think, for the moil 

 confiderable difficulties which can poffibly arife, even 

 amongft the mod neceffitous part of the community. 

 Could fuch a fcheme be carried into execution, many 

 advantages would arife to the kingdom, indepen- 

 dent of the increafe of population, the relief it would 

 afford to the landed intereft, and flability it would 

 give to public credit. By it the youthful, the vigo- 

 rous, and the adive, would infenfibly become the 

 fupporters of the aged, the infirm, and the difeafed; 

 the fingle man, finding that he mufl contribute to 

 the fupport of the married man's children, would 

 find it his intereft early to obey the di(5lates of na- 

 ture, and marry likewife, from which he would no 

 longer be deterred, by, the fear that himfelf and his 

 offspring might become beggars. 



Equally and enviably fecured againfl the incon- 

 veniencies of poverty or riches, fupporting and fup- 

 ported in turn by his fellow parifhioners, the peafant 

 would pafs his days, the father of a numerous and 

 vigoroiis offspring, in eafe, tranquillity, and peace. 



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