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remain. This business moreover would have to 

 be very carefully and skilfully performed, 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. Oil the other hand, if he would save him- 

 self the trouble and expense, he must forfeit, 

 as is usual in such cases, considerable advan- 

 tages. 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 tnat * 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 condi- 

 tion, that in time they might, in turn, become 

 developers, and at no very distant date the neces- 

 sity 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 



