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and around the freight-depots and wharves, and from these 

 centres abroad through the whole land. The very same 

 principle is at work wherever men live and work. It affects 

 every product of industry, whether it is a board of lumber, a 

 brick, an artificial stone, a gold or silver bar, a pig of iron, 

 a new tool, a machine, a locomotive, a steamship, a balloon, 

 a flying-machine, or a grain of corn. In truth, we cannot 

 have too much of a good thing; and corn is a good thing: 

 therefore let us grow as much of it as we can by means of 

 every improved method of culture, and grow richer in the 

 doing of it, and make the world richer too. 



