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they either tieglect the virtues, or averlook them, to 
elevate themselves to these objects. The more that 
manufactures extend themselves, the more they 
throw society into an unnatural state, by collecting 
them into too large bodies; and as admittance into 
these bodies is rather to be attained by :genuity or dex- 
terity in some particular manpfacture, than by any test 
of moral character, or’mental acquirements, by this 
means, the worthlefs. are mixed with the young of 
both sexes, who, being without the advantages of an 
early education, offer them but too easy means of 
debauching, or, by their example, of spreading vici- 
ous infection through the whole body. 
Manufactures, it is true, bring into society, by means 
of diffusing money, a great number of rich indivi- 
duals; but the pity is, that bad and mean mem increase 
in riches as fast as good men; and ¢hezr riches will 
be employed too often for the purposes of seduction, 
grofs gratification, and frivolous amusements: We 
see that, by means of a neglected education, and 
@ loose state of society, they will find a field but too 
readily prepared for them to indulge inevery vice. The 
more money there is diffused, the more the pafsions are 
extended, and the more furious they grow, till at last 
acertain foundation is laid for future misery and 
wretchednefs, by the sure introduction of vice under 
every form,—profligacy, drunkennefs, debility and 
disease. ' 
The limits of your publication confine me to view 
my subject as it affects the education and morals of 
youth, from facts falling under my own observation ; 
the subject is certainly big with importance, and in» 
