NATIONAL INDUSTRY. 5 



ducc of which is naturally denied her during 

 seasons of scarcity, when she stands in the 

 greatest need of it ; while she has millions of 

 colonial acres of her own unoccupied, not to 

 mention her much-neglected resources at home, 

 with thousands of her subjects unemployed, and 

 starving for wcuit of employment. To gain to 

 themselves a name, Englishmen have, so to 

 speak, built a commercial tower whose top may 

 reach to heaven, lest they themselves should be 

 scattered abroad to multiply and replenish the 

 immense extent of colonial territory which Pro- 

 vidence has given them. The same innate 

 spirit which concocted the building on the plain 

 of Shinar obviously dictates the present com- 

 mercial and manufacturing policy of England 

 England, famous for overcrowded cities and 

 densely populated manufacturing towns. 



During the last century, our commercial 

 interest has figured upon the stage of the world 

 in a very conspicuous form. The extraordinary 

 part which it has acted abroad is not more re- 

 markable than the hazardous game which it 

 has been playing at home : for, while England 

 has been studious to satisfy the wants of 

 strangers for an uncertain temporary gain, she 



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