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agriculture having commenced with the want of food, manufactures 

 with the want of clothing, and commerce with the necessity of each, 

 to exchange surplus means to procure the other. 



As a further illustration how all these interests are interwoven, and 

 should be equally encouraged, each is almost entirely dependent on 

 the other for existence, no less than prosperity; because agriculture 

 without manufactures, is destitute of tools for labour ; and, without 

 manufactures and commerce, it must abandon its surplus productions, 

 to perish unused ; while manufactures without agriculture, are without 

 food and most of the materials to work upon ; and without commerce, 

 cannot obtain them in exchange for supernumerary fabrics, which 

 they, themselves, can neither eat nor wear. And commerce, the 

 chief medium for diffusing knowledge and the arts — the great civi- 

 lizer of the human race — would be without employment, and power- 

 less, if agriculture and manufactures did not furnish surplus to be 

 sold, and thus beget intercourse and mutual benefits between diffe- 

 rent places and persons, and, indeed, bind together in interests, not 

 only one people, but nations on opposite sides of the globe. 



Hence the encouragement, and the consequent success, of all these 

 pursuits, if made one common interest, a united object and aim, in 

 every community, they will then, instead of being enfeebled by par- 

 ttal and opposing measures, and a happy family divided, and every 

 bright hope of all extinguished, they will then move ownward, with 

 a force as resistless and sure as that of the great laws of nature 

 around us. 



Other separate means to advance further each of these important 

 interests, can be developed best by adverting, separately, to some 

 thing the most striking in the progress of each, dnring the last cen- 

 tury or two. 



First, as to agriculture. In the long lapse of time since the cradle 

 of the human race was rocked, in Asia, in a garden, agriculture would 

 much, before the last one or two hundred years, appear able to hare 

 attained the highest degree of perfection, by means of different soils, 

 from rich Tallies to the most barren mountains — tested by every va- 



