^ * B)r • Baynes on the Affinity 
to be, in general, expefted from thofe, who 
would, at fird Hght, appear mod likely to make 
them ; I mean, the workmen in different branches 
of mechanifin. Turn your eyes to any of our 
numerous manufactures. You find every divifion 
of mechanical labour, executed by a feparate 
fet of workmen. Dr. Smith, in his Wealth of 
Nations, tells us, “ that a Pin goes through 
eighteen feveral didinCt operations,” each of 
which, probably, in a large concern, is per¬ 
formed by a different operator, who, it may be 
prefumed, would feel himlelf very awkward and 
unready, if obliged to change employment with 
any other of his fellow workmen. How many 
hands concur, in the formation of a Watch, but 
very few of whom are fo well acquainted'with 
the whole mechanifm , as to be able to put the 
Vfatch together, or to calculate the different 
wheels, of which it is compofed. 
I imagine it to be owing to this circumdance, 
that improvements, upon a larger Jcale , fuch as' 
tne invention of great and complicated machines, 
&c. have generally been made, by perfons, not, 
originally educated to the profeffion of thofe arts, 
in which they have made fuch adonifbing dif- 
coveries. Whild the regular artids have had 
their attention fixed upon the little points, and 
ramifications of art, in which indeed they have 
become adonidiingly perfect, the others, danding 
more at a didance, have had a wider field, a 
nobler 
