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1. c. by infducing the labouring clafTes to appropriate 

 fome fmall part of their earnings to a fund, from 

 which they may draw fuccour in the hour of need. 

 This plan has indeed fometimes originated with the 

 mod fenfible of the p6or themfelves, and has been 

 carried into effedt without much patronage frorti 

 the wealthy. But ^herfe the latter have been adive 

 in aiding, by their example and protei^ion, this com- 

 mendable difpofition, it has fuccecded in a pro^ 

 portionable degree. And fo confiderable in fome 

 inftances has that degree beeii, as to make it a 

 matter of fufpfife that fuch ceconomy has not 

 been univerfal ! The reafon, indeed, of this defed 

 of exertion is to be found, where every other moral 

 dcfcdb has its origin ; in the natural propenfity of 

 the human mind to do thofe things which ought 

 not to be done, and to omit thofe which fhould be 

 performed. 



To dwell on a moral defedt is a far lefs pleafing 

 tafk, than to urge the wifdom and happinefs of 

 doing well. This, therefore, we will endeavour to 

 do, as the mod likely means of engaging that atten- 

 tion, which may be favourable to the end in view. 

 Now with every common deduction from the good- 

 fiefs of human nature, it feems obvious that the 

 mind of man is prone to commend^ at lead, the 



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