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employ and remunerate the best workmen, whose utmost ability 

 was constantly excited and directed by his enlarging knowledge. 

 Thus he raised himself to the acme of his art, and the public were 

 amazed that a person with so contracted an education, and so little 

 of any advantage over his fellows, had thus been eminently success- 

 ful as the founder of his own fortune and fame (immortal as the art 

 of pottery), and in raising himself among the benefactors of man 

 and the princes of the people." 



