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necessaries plentifully produced at home, 

 we may be independent of other nations. 

 An absolute independency, which shuts 

 out commercial and in effect social inter- 

 course, is not meant. Nations do not all 

 yield the same productions ; and few, if 

 any, properly divide their employment 

 between husbandry and manufactories. 

 Britain is the nearest to it. Even where 

 the best proportion prevails, luxuries and 

 trifles will have some share of attention 

 among the artists, although common sense 

 directs that, especially for the interests of a 

 young country, the first and principal ap- 

 plication should be to procure necessaries 

 as well for staples of commerce as for do- 

 mestic uses ; such as food, clothing, am- 

 munition, &c. Yet legislators will not 

 over busily warp employment against its 

 natural bent. They may invite and gently 

 incline it ; avoiding dogmatical inhibition 

 or command, unless, it may be on very 

 extraordinary national occasions. Nor 

 will they erect monopolies, directly or in- 



