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labors for the rich alone; here she works for the poor no less. 
There the multitude produce only to give splendor and grace to 
the despot or the warrior whose slaves they are, and whom they 
enrich; here the man whois powerful in the weapons of peace, 
capital and machinery, uses them to give comfort and enjoyment 
to the public, whose servant he.is, and thus becomes rich while 
he enriches others with his goods. If this be truly the relation 
etween the condition of the arts of life in this country and in 
those of others, may we not with reason and with gratitude say, 
that we have indeed reached a point beyond theirs in the social 
I should wish to endeavor to bring before you: I mean, the view, 
Suggested by the classification of which such a collection has 
be ‘supposed that to divide any collection of things, oielge 
humerous and various, into classes, is a work of no great d 
culty, though when the collection is great, it may require much 
Szconp Serizs, . . 
