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the furplus remains for their own profit; not 

 to lay up as finings, but to maintain them- 

 felves and families iri neceffaries and fuper- 

 fluities ; that is, chiefly in the confumption 

 of manufactures. 



We have found the total of product to be 

 better than eighty- three millions : now fup- 

 pofe it mould, by an increafe of good huf- 

 bandry, be carried to an hundred millions, 

 or any other fuppofed amount ; in what 

 manner would this increafe act upon thefe 

 various ranks of people ? It would not, (as 

 fome writers have imagined,) center only in 

 the farmers profit, although fuch a circum- 

 ftance would be the moft favourable to the 

 State. The clergy would at once come in 

 for their fhare of the increafe ; the landlords 

 v/ould do the fame in a rife of rent; for high 

 profits of agriculture, in this refpect, is but 

 another word for competition for farms. The 

 very term, increafe of product, in fome mea- 

 fure implies an increafe of labour ; that is, 

 of income to the induftrious poor : So that 

 all ranks come in with the farmer for their 

 iliare of an increafe of product. His profit 

 is, doubtlefs, increafed -, but is not that, at 

 the fame time, increafing the income of all 

 thofe manufacturers among whom he necef- 

 iarily expends his furplus ? 



The greater the farmers profit, the more 

 the State is benefited, and without confi- 



dering 



