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Beside these special teachings, by the great school master, time, to 

 assist still further progress in each of the industrial interests we are 

 , anxious to promote, there is a general and striking lesson, inculcated 

 as to all equal/y, by their tendency, already shown, to advance each 

 other, when exercising co-operation and mutual encouragement. 

 Their harmony, their friendship, and assistance to each other, must, 

 therefore, be more promoted in future, as one of the surest guarantees 

 of further progress in all of them. 



This will prore, also, one of the strongest means to elevate higher 

 the condition, and multiply the numbers and riches of the whole human 

 race. We have already seen, that by increased skill and improved 

 impleinents in agriculture, the means of food have become cheaper 

 and far more abundant, so that many more millions in manufactures 

 and commerce, no less than agriculture, are able to be sustained, and 

 all in a better manner. By like increased skill and machinery in 

 manufactures, aid is not only given to agriculture by superior tools, 

 but myriads more in all pursuits can be well clad, and at less expense. 

 From these improvements, combined with some others of a medical 

 character, the bills of mortality in several countries exhibit fewer deaths 

 in the same number yearly by near one fourth. And by like causes 

 commerce has contributed to like ends, and can do more hereafter for 

 agriculture and manufactures, by transporting for them at a much lower 

 rate, every thing bought and sold ; and thus, at the same time, can 

 maintain more widely the more frequent intercourse among the great 

 family of nations, which in all ages promotes so much the progress of 

 civilization and peace. Indeed, continued or further progress seems 

 imprinted deep on all these important branches of industry, as a part 

 of their natural destiny, and as strongly as are imprinted the footsteps 

 of Deity on earth, ocean, the heavens, on even the marvellous shell 

 and flower. Because every improvement, added to them, makes them 

 more powerful to advance still further ; imparts new strength or means, 

 and should animate rather than discourage fiiture efforts. 



To conclude, in respect to the future encouragement of the whole 

 of the great branches of national wealth, it may be well to attend 

 more to increased beauty in all things connected with them. This 



