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tivates the soil, whether foreign or domestic; 

 but in this he were immensely restricted without 

 the assistance of the merchant and the manu- 

 facturer. He may resolve by his industry 

 to raise much more farm produce, such as 

 corn, cattle, flax, cotton, sugar-cane. &c. &c., 

 than he can require for his own use and imme- 

 diate wants; but, before doing so, he must 

 make up his mind for either becoming com- 

 mercial and manufacturing in his own opera- 

 tions, or else to be indebted to the others 

 engaged in those two branches of industry. 



Or again, as to commerce: On visiting the 

 extensive shops of this great metropolis (Lon- 

 don), we witness the agricultural produce of 

 every clime in the world manufactured into a 

 thousand forms, and exhibited in the most in- 

 viting manner that the mercer can imagine : but 

 all the anxiety, exquisite skill, and taste thus 

 manifested are simply, when viewed in their 

 most comprehensive light, so many aids to the 

 farmer in procuring from the soil its produce 

 in a shape that can meet the wants, luxuries, 

 and refinement of society. 



The industry of the manufacturing world 

 might easily be shown to be a similar subsidiary, 



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