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▼enience, the gratification, or the opulence of man ; may transform fub- 

 fiances (many of them ufelefs in themfelves) into an infinite variety of forms, 

 and apply them to an infinite variety of deftinations ; and, from the wants, 

 the luxuries, the caprices of the people, furnilh employment to the induftri- 

 Gus individual, and derive Arength, and wealth to the community. 



Sect. v. 



Ok frovidhig Food, for the ManufaSlurer. 



There are certain points, of the utitioft moment, connefted with the 

 profperity of manufaftures. The difcuffion of each of thefe would deferve 

 a volume. I can merely glance at them, in a curfory manner, with the li- 

 mited lights, which I pofltfs, and the fcanty limits to which I ara confined. 

 In the firft place, it Ihould be the great public care, to fupply the manufac- 

 turer with abundance of food, on cheap terms. — It has been too much the 

 praftice of many theorifts, in political economy, to confider manufaftures 

 and agriculture, as if they were wholly independent of each other, and fepa- 

 rate in their intereft, or even to inftitute a fort of rivalry between them 

 and to draw comparifons of their refpedive merits, for the purpofe of 

 giving a preference to the one, or the other, according to the fancy of the 

 {peculator. This, furely, is a great, and injurious miflake. The interefts 

 of commerce and manufafture, can never be disjoined, from thofe of agricul- 

 ture. 



Another great objeft fliould be, to facilitate manufaftures, and kflen 

 their expence, by encreafing the flock of fuel in the country ; rendering the 

 fupply regular, and conftant ; and diminifliing the cofl of an article, fo in. 

 difpenfably neceffary, both to the comfort of the individual, and the exer- 

 cjfe, and exiftence of every branch of manufailure. 



A third 



