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principles which would most probably supply them with 

 the means of improving and fixing their dyes ? 



1 A taste for the Polite Arts, especially those of drawing 

 and design, should appear a desirable acquisition to the 

 manufacturer of the finer and more elegant wares. If not 

 possessed of this, he is always dependent on others for the 

 patterns of his fabrics. Whereas, were he capable of 

 inventing them himself, he would possess considerable 

 advantages over his less accomplished neighbours. His 

 imagination would continually supply him with something 

 new ; and of what importance novelty is, in these times of 

 fashion and fancy, every day's experience furnishes con- 

 vincing proofs. It is this supereminent taste that has 

 distinguished the productions of a Wedgwood and a Bent- 

 ley above all their competitors in the same line of business. 

 Such a taste would doubtless be equally beneficial to the 

 manufacturer of the fine cotton and silk goods of Man- 

 chester, and he would be enabled to equal in elegance of 

 pattern, as he excels in strength of fabric, the manufactures 

 of our neighbouring and inimical rivals.' 



Dr. Barnes on the Affinity subsisting between the Arts} 



' So great is the analogy between the several arts, that 

 no man knows to what extent the improvement of any 

 single art may affect others, even where the relation, at 

 first sight, appears most distant. Who would have 

 imagined that the discovery of the properties of the 

 magnetic needle would have had such amazing, and 

 almost infinite effects? That by this property alone 

 navigation should become so astonishingly extended, new 



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