4 INTRODUCTION. 



pation allotted to his first parents ; whence flow health, 

 social order, and obedience to lawful authority ; conse- 

 quences very different from those that are produced by 

 the over-driven system of man ufa6lu ring, in which the 

 industrious workman is often subje£ted to great inconve- 

 niencies, not only by the fluftuation in the demand for 

 the articles he manufactures, but likewise by a total sus- 

 pension of trade by war or other causes. When evils, 

 like these, which he has no power to avert, press hard 

 "upon him, he is frequently rendered desirous of assisting 

 to brinp- about any political change, whereby he is 

 tempted to believe that his situation may be rendered 

 more comfortable ; hence he becomes unquiet, and to so- 

 ciety a less valuable member than the husbandman, whose 

 occupation does not expose him to such distress, nor to 

 the like temptations. 



Whilst the benevolent must feel for the hardships to 

 which, at times, manufa£lurers are Hable, still they can- 

 not but recolleft the restless spirit so frequently mani- 

 fested by persons of this description, e\ en in the mo- 

 ment of the greatest prosperity; especially in towns and 



cities, 



