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discontent discontent, disorder and general 

 distress. Gratifying as such an anticipation of 

 good may be, yet reflection drops into the scale 

 her ponderous weight, against the value of the 

 theory suspended in the other, and shows that 

 agriculture alone, unassisted by manufactures 

 and commerce, is incapable of producing all the 

 promised benefits. The labor of one individual 

 in husbandry will provide food for six : hence 

 it is evident that a limited number of the people 

 can only thus be advantageously employed on 

 the soil ; and resort must be had, and surely 

 not unavailingly, to the proprietors of the land 

 the capitalists in stock to devise the means of 

 giving fit and profitable employment to that 

 portion of the community not required for agri- 

 cultural purposes, by the introduction of ma- 

 nufacturing establishments, and the extension of 

 commercial pursuits. 



Without such auxiliary modes of engaging the 

 national industry, an extension of the present 

 system only would be delusory, and become 

 the source of more widely-diffused streams of 

 misery all over the country, by giving facilities 

 and affording encouragement to augment the 

 present superabundant population, which is not 

 likely to be restrained but by the expedients of 



