1,791' ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CHEMICAL ARTS. IO5 

 comnuinlcated to the whole. To obviate this difficul- 

 t;/, the following cafe may be confidered. 



Let us confine ourfelves, in the prefent inftance, to 

 bleachers only. In that bufinefs, each adociatcd part- 

 ner has only to give in a /air account of the number of 

 yards he bleaches annually, (this, I believe, is done al- 

 ready, as to all cloth for fale), and let the contribution 

 bg. made, at a certain rate, for e\*ery Imndred yards ma- 

 nufadured. In this way, each perfon could contribute 

 to the common fund, always in proportion to the ac- 

 tual extent of his bufinefs ;— and in proportion to the 

 actual extent of liis bufinefs, he muft alfo be benefited 

 by every improvement the affociation acquireth right 

 to. — Nothing, therefore, feems to be more fair than 

 this mode of procedure, as both the expence of thecon-\ 

 tribution, and the benefit refulting from it, would be 

 exaftly proportioned to the quantity of bufinefs car- 

 litd on by each of the aflbciated members. This 

 may ferve as an example of what may be done in 

 other cafes, which it is unneceflary farther to enlarge 



upon 



J. A. 



A detached Tboiiglt. 

 The wifefl: of thofe who live, is he who believes him- 

 felf the iieareft to death, and who regulates all his ac- 

 tions by that thought. 



The mo(t fenfible, on the contrary, among thofe who 

 make fcientific refearches, is lie who believes himfelf the 

 fartheft from the goal, and who, whatever knowledge he 

 may have acquired, v\hatever advances he may have made 

 in his road, ftudies as if he yet knew nothing, and 

 marches as if he were only yet beginning to make his 

 fii"ft advances. 



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