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But, it will be objected, if Jones should have 

 neither capital, nor credit, or be incompetent, or 

 though none of these, should yet, for any other cause, 

 be unable or unwilling, to work out his own 

 prosperity, what would he do then? Would he 

 not be obliged to sit down and wait until he 

 should be more favorably circumstanced or to 

 advertize in the journals of foreign countries far 

 and wide, that he had a fine estate capable of 

 yielding untold wealth in iron, gold, fibres, tea, 

 cotton, silk, and abundance of labor, and that any 

 one who liked was welcome to come and make 

 his fortune thereon, in the hope that some rich 

 and enterprizing people would come and help him. 



No. I do not think it likely that Jones would 

 adopt either of these courses. Because, by the first, 

 he would probably cut off all hope of ever realizing 

 the object of his aims ; and by the second ', he would 

 certainly postpone it to such an indefinite period, 

 that his grand -children might never live to derive 

 any advantage from the result. For, supposing 

 Jones to be a good man of business and competent 

 to manage his own affairs, he would at once under- 

 stand, that people with money would require a far 

 better guarantee, first, for the existence of the untold 

 wealth, and second, for the cost of producing and 

 mnging it to market, than was contained in his 

 simple assurance, before they could be induced 

 to withdraw their capital from undertakings in 



