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fickle. Thus a new race of the induftri-* 

 ous is by degrees created, and its increafe 

 is proportioned to its creation ; an effect fa 

 undoubted, that any village in this coun- 

 try might by an incrcafing employment be 

 prefently raifed to a Sheffield, or a Birming- 

 ham. But who is weak enough to fuppofe, 

 that the furrounding farmers would there- 

 fore want hands. 



But there is another circumftance, which 

 is a ftrong additional proof, that the in- 

 creafe of the induftrious, occafioned by an 

 increafe of employment, muff be immenfe, 

 and even more than apparent ; aud that is 

 the effect which great pay is attended with, 

 of making men idle : This now appears a 

 ftriking contradiction to what I have before 

 afferted ; but a very few words will fuffi- 

 ciently explain it. 



Great earnings operate, as I have already 

 explained, in bringing people to work who 

 otherwife would have continued idle; but 

 they at the fame time have a ftrong effect 

 on all who remain the leait inclined to 

 idlenefs or other ill courfes, by caufing 

 them to work but four or five days, to 

 maintain themfelves the feven ; this is a 

 fact fo well known in every manufacturing 

 town, that it would be idle to think of 



proving it by argument. The operation 



of great wages therefore is this ; they pro- 

 digiouily increafe the number of the indu- 

 ftrious j 



