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as has been paid to other defigns of public utility, 
it might be executed ; and, if executed, mufi be 
of public advantage; an advantage, which no 
man can eftimate at prefent, and the full extent 
of which, perhaps, no man could conjecture. 
Before I ftate this plan, I will beg leave to 
make two obfervations, in addition to what has 
been already faid, on the fubjeCt of improve¬ 
ments in our manufactures. And, fird, 
It is now mere neceffary than ever , that our 
artids and workmen, in the different branches, 
fhall be poffeffed of fome degree of tajle. And 
tafte is only to be acquired by that general and 
mifcellaneous knowledge, which it has been the 
objeCt of this paper to recommend. Our manu¬ 
factures mud now have, not merely, that ftrength 
of fabric, and that durability of texture, in which 
once confided their highed praife. They mud 
have elegance of defign, novelty of pattern, and 
beauty of Jinijhing. To effeCt thefe, all the aid 
of improved and refined art is effentiaily necef¬ 
fary. The dull plodder, accudomed to pace 
round and round, like a mill-horfe, is not likely 
to drike out any thing new, and elegant. He 
may, indeed, adopt the improvements of others: 
but his will never be the praife, of ferving his 
fellow-creatures, by any inventions , of real im¬ 
portance, and utility. 
I would further obferve, that, in the prefent 
date of the Arts, capital improvements are not 
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