INTRODUCTION. 5 



cities, wliere, for the interest and convenience of the 

 masters, and not of the workmen, they are coUcdled in 

 o;reat numbers. 



To this assemblage may be ascribed the dissemination of 

 pernicious doctrines, by a few profligate persons, who are 

 tobe found inall societies, and who have it in their power to 

 corrupt the good principles of the many. The well affeft- 

 ed thus become the tools of the seditious and designing. 



To such poUtical evils there is but one remedy : 



That a preference to all other pursuits be given to 

 Agriculture. 



That the establishment of such branches of manufac- 

 ture, as it may be wise to encourage, be promoted only in 

 scattered villages, resembling the townships in America. 

 By this plan the diseases of the body and the mind would 

 be rendered less contagious ; each individual might, at a 

 moderate rent, be supplied not only with a sufficient ex- 

 tent of ground, to enable him to keep a cow, and supply 



his 



