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stances of which all material things are composed do not, 

 except in combinations with each other, enter into or influence 

 the organic growth of plants. So in the social economy, not 

 the isolation of the farmer or the manufacturer, but the union 

 of both gives the needful element of social organization. 



Let England strain every nerve to gain and hold possession 

 of the markets of mankind with her vast and world-embracino" 



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system of manufactures and commerce, and let her strive with 

 equal effort to feed from her garden patch the millions whom 

 she thus employs ; and so doing, let her teach the docile nations 

 to devote themselves exclusively to the ciilture of the earth, 

 and persuade whom she may. We will observe her practice, 

 and draw our precepts for ourselves ; and hail 



" The rise of empire and of arts." 



