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contrary, wants only moderate encouragement, to draw from it the mofl 

 aftive and laudable exertions. 



It is a favourable omen for the advancement of manufactures, that 

 the cultivation of the foil has made fuch progrefs in this country. The 

 agricultural and commercial fyftems ought to go hand in hand. Sir 

 William Temple imputes the want of trade in Ireland to the want of 

 people ; the encreafe of agriculture, while it multiplies the inhabitants 

 of a country, becomes one of the mod eflFeftual means of eftablifliing 

 manufadures on a permanent bafe, by procuring for the workmen a 

 cheap and plentiful fupply of provifions. " The laws and cuftoms," 

 fays Dr. Smith, " fo favourable to yeomanry, have perhaps contributed 

 " more to the grandeur of England, than all the boafled regulations of 

 " commerce taken together. What has brought the American colo- 

 " nies, (adds he) to their prefent flate of prolperity, but agriculture?" 



The foregoing obfervatlons are more nearly connefted with the fub- 

 je£l of manufaftures, than, at firfl: fight, may appear. It is impoffible 

 to feparate the different provinces and exertions of induftry ; they muft 

 concur, in a regular and well organized whole ; in a fyftematical and 

 harmonious co-operations, to produce national profperity. To excite a 

 partial, a limited, or local exertion, in fome particular department of 

 induftry, or branch of manufafture, without attending to this integrity 

 of plan, mufl prove a futile, or even a pernicious attempt. If there 

 is not a general difpofition to labour, a fober and permanent fpirit of 

 induflry diffufed over the country, maintained and aflifled by frugality 



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