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sources of employment, he has become chained 

 as it were to the spot where first he drew his 

 breath, and is compelled there to lead a ve- 

 getative life; the difficulties which surround 

 him exclude all hope of bettering his con- 

 dition, which he daily observes animating his 

 protestant brethren. At an early age the pa- 

 ternal roof ceases to afford the wonted shelter 

 and support : narrowed in his present views, 

 and cut off from all prospective expectation, the 

 immediate object of his senses is a wife his fu- 

 ture happiness a cabin. Here an additional tie 

 is contracted to bind him to the sod at his 

 door ; he becomes content to exist, and be idle. 

 Justly to charge the laborious orders with idle- 

 ness generally, as their characteristic, it would 

 first be necessary to show that industry is an 

 innate principle of action on the contrary 

 it is created by capital nursed by example, and 

 matured by habit. The activity of the most 

 busy scene is not imputable to any superior 

 energy in the minds of the respective indivi- 

 duals, but may be referred to the existing cause 

 of genius combined with enterprise and capital, 

 diffusing a stimulus, that, not unlike the glorious 

 presence of the sun, spreads widely round, and 

 from a puny beginning soon becomes no less re- 

 spectable in its influence, than in its extended 

 blessings to the human race. It would also be 



