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The first is, the employment which the production of 

 silk will furnish to that portion of our community which 

 are destitute of profitable employment. All the means 

 of human enjoyment, and all the accumulations of 

 wealth, are, in one form or other, the product of human 

 labor. The happiness and wealth of nations are, there- 

 fore, promoted in exact proportion to the active industry 

 of the community. In order that readily extended 

 prosperity exist, it is absolutely necessary that industry 

 pervade every department of society ; and that industry 

 should be directed to objects adapted to those who 

 labor, and are capable of producing wealth, then some- 

 thing must be produced by all. No community, as a 

 mass, can grow rich, no large number of families can 

 permanently thrive, when one, two, three, or more 

 members in each family are entirely unproductive. 

 Suppose one quarter of the community devote their 

 energies to speculation, all they gain is abstracted from 

 others in some way ; they produce nothing their 

 country must grow poorer they must be sustained by 

 the labors of the other portion of the community, and 

 permanent prosperity cannot exist. As nations and 

 large communities are made up of families and individ- 

 uals, in order to promote national prosperity, it is abso- 

 lutely necessary that industry pervade the domestic 

 circle that all the members of our families should be 

 usefully employed. Under the present state of 

 society and the existing subjects of industry, however, 

 profitable employment cannot be furnished to the whole 



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