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attract to his help, that they were good and would 

 pay, would still remain. This business, moreover, 

 would have to be very carefully and skilfully per- 

 formed, under the superintendence of competent 

 persons ; or experiments that should succeed, would 

 fail, and after the expenditure of much money Jones 

 would be no nearer the end of his aims than he was 

 before. On the other hand, if he would save himself 

 the trouble and expense, he must forfeit, as is usual 

 in such cases, considerable advantages. For, though 

 the condition of the operative classes would be much 

 improved by the working expenses, the profits would 

 not return to the country to be again spent in it, 

 but would go to enrich the foreign proprietors of 

 the stock. Still, on the principle that ' half a loaf 

 is better than no bread/ if Jones saw no other 

 means of developing his wealth, than by having 

 recourse to foreigners, he would probably lose no 

 time in adopting active and energetic measures for 

 attracting them to his estate. The working expenses 

 would certainly much enrich his people, and so 

 improve their condition that in time they might, in 

 turn, become developers, and at no very distant 

 date the necessity for the employment of foreign 

 aid might disappear altogether. 



It will thus appear that there are three plans that 

 Jones, or a person situated like him, might adopt 

 for working out his prosperity. To leave the task 

 in the hands of his tenantry. To undertake it him- 

 self. To avail himself of the agency of foreigners. 



