204 on manufactures and agricuiture.. Dec. 12. 
these into nourifhing food, by conjoining them with 
others, might be very great; because it might of- 
ten happen, as in the instance of the yew tree, be- 
fore us, that these noxious plants might afford abun- 
dant food, at a season of the year when others could 
not be found; or that the soil, was fitted to produce. 
a greater quantity of nutriment by yielding these 
plants than any others. Were these experiments 
also pufhed as far as was necefsary, might we not 
discover means of correcting those diseases in ani~ 
mals that originate from noxious plants ;—not by 
means of medicines, which too often tend to weaken 
the animal, and prevent its fattening; but by means 
of a proper mixture of other nourifhing food, which 
fhould, altogether, tend to carry the animal forward: 
in a continued state of progrefsive amelioration ? 
ON THE COMPARATIVE INFLUENCE OF AGRICULTURE 
AND MANUFACTURES UPON THE MORALS AND HAP- 
PINESS OF A PEOPLE, AND THE IMPROVEMENT AND 
STABILITY OF STATES. 
A sENSIBLE correspondent, (Bee, vol. ix. p. 84,) hag 
made some pertinent remarks on the probable dan~ 
ger of turning too much of our attention to manu-~ 
factures, particularly in respect to the effect it may 
have on the morals of the people. As the happinefs 
of a nation depends much more on the purity of the 
‘morals of its people, than on any other cause, thisjis a 
circumstance that ought to be carefully adverted 
to by all who ‘have a desire to promote the prosperity 
