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and to restore submission to authority; but 

 such submission has always proved but of 

 temporary duration, wherever the industrious 

 habits of the common people have been set at 

 nought. The sword may conquer the most 

 potent of monarchs, and the most extensive 

 kingdoms abroad, but can never subdue the 

 invulnerable arm of famine and want, in the 

 midst of plenty at home ; neither can it erase 

 from the page of inspiration, and the statute- 

 book of nature, the irreversible decree, pro- 

 nounced against every state, kingdom, and 

 country, " Cursed is the ground for thy sake." 



The pecuniary benefits directly experienced 

 by the rich, arising from the proper cultivation 

 of the industrious habits of the labouring 

 population, are not less remarkable than the 

 evil consequences flowing from the neglect of 

 them : for, in the north of Ireland, we found 

 the expense of labour to be nearly double that 

 which exists in this country, while the wages 

 of the Irish labourer were only one-half those 

 of the English ; and taking the year over, even 

 less than that proportion : while in the south 

 and west of the Sister Isle, the difference was 

 still greater. 



