86 on manufactures. May 23. 
distributed among the labourers, artizans, merchants, 
and all other profefsions useful to society ; and when 
it is thought, that, to attain prefetment and respect in 
life, requires an attention to those studies that dig- 
nify human nature, and a dedication of a greater 
length of time to acquire them, than is, in otr pre- 
‘sent manufacturing state of society, thought necef- 
sary in general to bestow. Education may certainly 
be éonsidered as the source of the greatest benefits to 
society as well as to individuals, as the earliest im- 
prefsions determine the character of man, and ope 
rate with good ar bad effect the rest of his life. Whats 
ever, therefore, operates so as to fhorten too much 
that necefsary and useful period of time that is spent 
in acquiring virtuous instruction, or has 2 tendency 
to corrupt education itself, is certainly, in the most 
alarming degree, hostile to the interests .and happi-+ 
nefs of mankind.—A too extended manufacture, by 
‘giving too early employment to children of both 
sexes, of the middling, as well as in the common rank of 
life, takes them off too soon, or altogether, from their 
schools, where they not only acquired necefsary in— 
‘formations, but likewise their habits of order and 
subordination, which they naturally carried intg the 
world with them, with good effects to themselves and 
society. 
This state of manufacture, too, lias a certain ten~ 
dency to corrupt the young mind, as'the first objects 
which it presents to the growing pafsions are.for- 
tune and greatnefs; and young people, seeing these 
obtain but too much the incense and homage of their 
parents, and those around them, the consequence is, 
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