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Tl»c political economists of Europe hare 



tmblUIicJ JLS 1 |): ^)lc that cvciy State 



should endeavour to manufacture for ii-> 



self; aiul this priiu ^ ^ i.o many i f, 



,>ly lo Aincric.i, without calculating 



the i cnce of circumstances, which often 



produce a difT ol rcsuh. In hurupe, 



the bnds are cither cuhivatcd or locked 

 up ag cuhivator. Manufacture 



must be resorted to of necessity — not from 

 choice — to sujiport the surplus ('f tlicir 

 people. Rut they have an immensity of 

 :, courting tlic indu>try of the husband- 

 J. an. h it bcst» then, that all their citizens 

 ^}i ill! he employed in its improvement, 

 (I tiiat one half should be called off from 

 tiiat to exercise manufactures and iiandi- 

 •' : the otlier? Those who li^ 

 bour in the earth arc the chosen people of 

 God, if ever he had a cho.sen people ; 

 whose breasts he has made hi<; peculiar 

 c!Lj)(»sit f^r substantial and genuine virtue. 

 It is the focus in which he keeps up that 

 lacrcd lire, \. . • ^jhi ^ 



