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foil around them ; may prune their exuberances, may lop off difeafed, and 

 unproduftive branches, and irrigate them, with bounties : but it will not 

 fucceed, fliould it propofe, to rear them fuddenly, in a hot-bed, to a 

 maturity of healthy growth. It cannot clip, and torture them, into arbi- 

 trary forms, without incurring the rifque of killing them. 



Sect. ix. 



Of Charitable Loans. 



The true mode of encouraging induftry is, by (hewing to the people, 

 that exertion and profit, labour and gain, walk hand in hand. That this 

 fentiment may be excited, in its full force, and efScaey, there ftiould not 

 be any intermediate vifible agency, or operating caufe of benefit, between 

 the artifan, and his own exertions. The fruit, which he derives from his 

 labours, fliould feem the neceflary, and immediate progeny of his labours 

 themfelves ; there ftiould be nothing, to leave his path doubtful before 

 him, by giving him hopes of fubfiftence, from any other fource, than his 

 own aflual merit. All that a perfon fairly obtains, by undifputed efforts of 

 his own induftry, is, to him, a leflbn of induftry, and a (Irong incentive, to 

 profit, by that leflbn. Far otherwife, with refpe^ to all that is obtained, in 

 the way of bounty, and gratuity ; it is a thing foreign from the exertions 

 of the induftrious ; it comes unexpeftediy, and fuddenly ; it is, in fome 

 degree, fortuitous, and not neceflarily connefted with the exertions of in- 

 duftry. On thefe principles, I am convinced, that he who lends a fum to 

 a manufafturer, and ftriftly holds him to repayment, as foon as repayment 

 is in his'power, is more truly his friend, and will ferve the caufe of induftry 

 more effisftually, and extenfively, than he who fliould beftow an equal fum, 

 without any expeftation of return, on the manufafturer in qucftion. 



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