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The political economists of Europe have 

 established as a principle that every state 

 should endeavour to manufacture for it- 

 self; and this principle, like many others, 

 we apply to America, without calculating 

 the difference of circumstances, which often 

 produce a difference of result. In Europe, 

 the lands are either cultivated or locked 

 up against the cultivator. Manufacture 

 must be resorted to of necessity not from 

 choice to support the surplus of their 

 people. But they have an immensity of 

 land, courting the industry of the husband- 

 man. Is it best, then, that all their citizens 

 should be employed in its improvement, 

 or that one half should be called off from 

 that to exercise manufactures and handi- 

 craft arts for the other ? Those who la- 

 bour in the earth are the chosen people of 

 God, if ever he had a chosen people ; 

 whose breasts he has made his peculiar 

 deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. 

 It is the focus in which he keeps up that 

 sacred fire, which otherwise might escape 



