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kingdom must be affected by the general deprecia- 

 tion in the value of the produce of the soil. If 

 the field for the employment of labour be enlarged, 

 the condition of the labourers would be improved, 

 and the poor rates would be reduced, and the 

 country would be relieved from excess of numbers, 

 and from the distress and dissatisfaction incident 

 thereto. And when the labouring population are 

 again placed in circumstances in which they will 

 have a surplus of wages, after purchasing the com- 

 mon necessaries of life, then will be the time, then 

 will be the opportunity, for putting into more ex- 

 tensive operation those plans which have been 

 devised and promoted, and will be devised and 

 promoted, for permanently improving their moral 

 and physical condition ; for then they will receive 

 with more gratitude, embrace with more cheerful- 

 ness, and co-operate with more interest and assi- 

 duity in these plans. The labouring classes may 

 be placed once again in circumstances above want, 

 -in circumstances in which they are no longer 

 obliged to eat the bitter bread of poverty, in cir- 

 cumstances in which they may enjoy the comforts 

 of sufficiency. Yet, in the ignorant and depraved 

 condition of the great majority of them, they would 

 not anticipate, they would not shrink from, and 

 therefore they would not adopt means to prevent, 

 when means are in their power, a recurrence of 

 that miserable poverty from which they had lately 

 emerged. Every man, who has closely observed 

 the habits and characters of the working classes, 



