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founded, in a multiplicity of cafes, on 

 we know not what : But the exiftence and 

 increafe of the working hands are vifible ; 

 the progrefs of all public and private 

 works at the fame moment fufficiently 

 prove this. Thus it is of no confequence 

 to either fide of the prefcnt argument, to 

 talk of wages and pay ; whether they are 

 immenfely high, or unreafonably low, it 

 makes no kind of difference ; the number 

 of induftrious hands is the iingle point to 

 be attended to as proof : If we recur to 

 the chain of caufes of an increafe of in- 

 duftry, we ihall there find the rife of wages 

 coming in for its fhare, and forming one 

 material link. 



Two millings and fixpence a day, will 

 undoubtedly tempt fome to work, who 

 would not touch a tool for one (hilling. 

 A fellow that has been ufed to lounge at 

 home, in an idle cottage, may be tempted 

 out by high wages, though not by low 

 ones : Another that in cheap times ufed to 

 balk himfelf all day in the fun, holding a 

 cow by a line to feed on a balk in dear 

 ones, betakes himfelf to the pick-ax and 

 the fpade. In a word, idle people are con- 

 verted by degrees into induftrious hands ; 

 youths are brought forward to work ; even 

 boys perform their mare, and women at 

 the profpecl: of great wages clap their 

 hand* with cheerfulnefs, and fly to the 



fickle. 



