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being made subservient to a further production 

 of food. Cheering as this prospect may appear, 

 and happy as it would be under some circum- 

 stances, it is not so here! All hope of 

 augmenting the store of human happiness is 

 vain, where the means of employing a super- 

 abundance of rational beings are wanting! 

 Man to be happy must be engaged in some 

 pursuit : that of the subordinate classes is re- 

 stricted to bodily labor; among the next in 

 rank, intellectual researches are added to bodily 

 exertion yet does occupation in both form the 

 basis of substantial human felicity. Great as 

 the labor may appear of procuring subsistence, 

 it will employ but a small portion of a civilized 

 population! How then is subsistence to be 

 ibund for the remainder ? 



The church at Edgeworth's Town being under 

 repair, there was no service. We were induced to 

 protract our departure, for the purpose of seeing 

 the numbers who attended the service of the ca- 

 tholic chapel : the congregation was numerous ; 

 not only the large building, but all the avenues 

 leading to it, were crowded. The ringing of a 

 bell warned the congregation to kneel and rise: 

 several were prostrated on the ground devotion 

 was so unaffectedly displayed in the conduct 

 of the majority, as to increase the regret we 



