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tural wants, and ncceffities, of mankind, and that, as the expediency of 

 introducing manufaftures of luxury is doubtful, fo alfo is the difficulty 

 of their firfl: introduflion. — Great manufadures may ftill further be 

 confidered, with regard to their influence on the health nnd comfort 

 of the individuals who exercife them, and their tendency to prove 

 noxious and injurious, or offenfivc to the community at large. 



There may be alfo, perhaps, fome trades among the various forms 

 of induftry, into which the invention and the avarice of man branches 

 out his labour, which exhibit human nature in a ftate of debafement, 

 and furnifli an ofFeofive and humiliating fpeftacle. Such manufaftures 

 fliould not, any where, or on any account, be encouraged by the le- 

 giflature ; the commodities ftiould rather be imported. 

 Some arts and manufactures are injurious to the manufacturer, by the 

 confined and unwholefome pofture, in which his work muft be per- 

 formed, or the fedentary habits of life, to which he mufl: confine him- 

 felf. Others, again, are converfant, about deleterious fubflances. or iu- 

 duce a neceffity, of encountering noxious effluvia. Weaving is a ma- 

 nufadure of the firfl; kind ; the preparation of fome dye-fl:uffs, pain- 

 ters' colours, painting, gilding, refining metals, all arts and trades, 

 in which quickfilver is employed, are of the fecond. The manufac- 

 tures of lime, of bricks, of tiles, of foap and candles, of glue, of fal 

 armoniac, of mufical firings or catgut, are of the third defcription.* 

 "With refpea to all fuch trades or manufaclures as are ftrikingly in- 

 jurious to the health of individuals, or ofFenfive to the public j they 

 are lefs deferving of encouragement from the legiflature than others, 

 many of them are actually neceffary, to the exigence or accommoda- 

 tion of man, and muft be carried on, by fome perfons or other ; 

 Vol. IX. ( D d ) but 



* They are manufa(5lured from the entrails of animals, drawn out and twitted ; I re- 

 collea the trial of a prefentment, in DubUu, againft some people, who had commenced 

 a manufaflure from the same materials, of the ficins or envelopes for Bologna faufaga ; 

 part of the process was, by leaving the subjefl matters in a putrescent flate, till the coat-, 

 of the inteftines were feparated. The prefentment was allowed. 



