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creation, and that all wealth results solely from 

 that which agriculture creates. 



Agriculture is therefore susceptible of such an 

 organization, as that the same quantity of labour 

 yields a fivefold produce. 



The Scotch afford a proof of this ; for even in 

 Ireland, in Antrim, the nearest county to Scot- 

 land, whither some of the inhabitants of the latter 

 country have emigrated, and cleared the land upon 

 their method, the labourers, as we see in the fore- 

 going table, earn a shilling a day, and are occu- 

 pied all the year ; whilst in certain districts of the 

 province of Connaught, the labourers have em- 

 ployment during only twenty-four and thirty days 

 of the year, and earn no more than sixpence a 

 day. 



