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the mercantile profession — Iea\ing a balance iu tlie hands of j^roducers far 

 exceeding their whole production, pro^■ided they turn aside to act the merchant 

 for themselves — the physical wants of all are better supplied, and time and means 

 are furnished for an advanced stage of intellectual and moral cultiwation. 



But our economical analysis of society may be carried still further. In order 

 to the greatest aggregate production of physical values, the health of the pro- 

 ducing and the exchanging classes, including all ages and conditions, nmst be 

 provided for, and thus a demand is created for skilled labor in the healing art. 

 But if each individual were bound to acquire this skill for himself, and to seek 

 out and compound his own simples, production must be suspended the while; 

 the skill comes too late ; the race is <:lying out, not only of disease, but of star- 

 vation. It is sound economy, therefore, to sustain a medical j^rofession, as a 

 distinct and independent employment — for the consequent enlargement of the 

 aggregate wealth of the community, will pay the charges of the profession ; 

 lea\ing the producer with ampler means, and sounder health, and unbroken 

 time, to provide, not only for the gratification of his physical wants, but also 

 for the more exalted purposes of his being. 



But, again ; it is essential to the progress of a community in physical w^ealth, 

 and other forms of social Avell being, that the rights of men in the civil state, 

 should be ascertained, declared, defended, and vindicated ; and the call for skilled 

 labor in this department must be met, or the law of the strongest will prevail ; 

 \'iolence will take the place of social order, and civilization is at an end. 



Shall this call for skilled labor in the law, be met by each producer for 

 himself? Or is it sound economy that he should meet it by Attorney? That a 

 profession of those learned in the law should be sustained, to do that service 

 which the individual cannot do for himself without ruinous neglect of the pro- 

 cesses of pi-oduction and exchange ? Civilization and economy return their united 

 answer, that the Bar must be sustained as a distinct and independent profession. 



Again ; that righteousness exalteth a nation, is the scriptural annunciation of 

 the general principle, that the sentiments of reciprocity and benevolence, per- 

 vading the common mind, constitute the broad and deep foimdation on which 

 reposes the structure of civil society. The sentiment of justice, pervading the 

 common mind, gives to beneficent legislation its vitality and its strength : it lies 

 at the foundation of the right of property : without it, production and accumu- 

 lation ai'e at an end, and civilization is but an empty name. 



How divinely then is the pulpit adapted to imbue the common mind with 

 that righteousness which exalteth a nation. It inculcates a perfect rule of life, the 

 fountain of all just legislation ; and what is vastly more important, it enforces 

 that rule, not like the human legislator, by sanctions drawn from this present life 

 only, but by those which respect our immortal being, our relations to God, the 



