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cases the employed necessarily partake in every 

 improvement that is made in machinery, and 

 have their full share of interest in all new inven- 

 tions. 



The extended classification of labour is an 

 advantage to the working classes themselves, 

 and contributes in various ways to their comfort, 

 convenience, and profit. 



The farther this classification of human indus- 

 try is carried, the more any individual branch of 

 trade or manufacture becomes dependent on the 

 subordinate branches of this subdivision of 

 labour. All the departments being thus sub- 

 servient to and dependent on each other ; the 

 very lowest (those I mean which require the 

 least exertion of skill or industry,) have still 

 their relative value ; and whilst the highest degree 

 of ingenuity and dexterity will be applied where 

 it is most wanted, and will be sure of a propor- 

 tionate remuneration, the inferior kinds of labour 

 will furnish employment to a very large class of 

 the community, whose services could not have 

 been required, had not the invention of machi- 

 nery rendered them available. Every new 

 machine may, in fact, be considered as a source 

 of individual advantage to the artizan, on whose 

 skill or industry alone its productiveness must 



