[ i77 J 

 ftrious ; but at the fame time take away 

 the neceflity of working a day, for a day's 

 maintenance, which, though it cannot be 

 fuppofed to render all at times idle, yet 

 muft affecT: a great number. 



Thus it is evident, that the increafe of 

 employment raifes wages, and the rife of 

 wages increafes the number of the indu- 

 ftrious, the latter effect, muft be much 

 greater than apparent ; for not increafing 

 the quantity of labour, proportionally to the 

 number of hands ; the increafe of the latter 

 muft be out of proportion to the increafe 

 of employment, or fome of the demands 

 would be unfupplied. For inflance, 500 

 hands are employed by hufbandry, public 

 works are fet on foot, which would take 

 300, upon the average of work done by 

 labourers among the farmers ; but as the 

 increafe of wages occafions a new fpecies 

 of idlenefs, the works would be at a ftand, 

 if only 300 new induftrious were drawn 

 forth, fo that 350, or 400, muft poflibly 

 be created by the rife of wages, to do the 

 work of 300. 



It is for thefe reafons, which are found- 

 ed upon the moft fimplc of all principles, 

 the common emotions of .human nature, 

 that no induftrious nation need ever fear 

 a want of hands for executing any the 

 moft extenfive plans of public or private 

 improvement ; it would be falfe to aflert, 



Vol. I. N that 



