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PR IN CI- well tailed apples and pears, cherries and plumbs, peaches and 



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apricots, cabbages and turnips, potatoes and yams^ and fo many 



PLES OF 



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other fruits,' herbs and roots, which are meliorated by continued 



cultivat 



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afforded us new 



and forts of the 



fame kind of vegetable. The more and the better all vegetables are 

 .cultivated, the more they enable mankind to alTociate together, 

 and to communicate to each other their affiflance, their experience, 

 dieir ideas and improvements. Invention is more and more at 

 w^ork, life acquires Jiew eafe and comfort, the ties of fociety be- 

 come indiiToluble, all focial feelings are rendered polifhed and re- 

 fined; every one fliares, in a higher degree, the happinefs, and is 



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better enabled to alleviate the adverfities of his fellow-creatures ; 



univerfal peace and order become more and more a check upon the 



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paffions, and their wild flights; theie regulations are gradually turned 

 into laws, and caufe a more general equality of temper, and man- 

 ners ; this is the next flep to convince them of the great influence 



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of vice and virtue, on their perfonal and focial happinefs ; and at lafl; 

 confcience and moral fentiments begin to awake in every feeling 

 breafl, and prepare every one for that degree of happinefs and en- 



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joyment, which humanity 



attain in this tranfltory life 



This 



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therefore fhews evidently, that mankind 



paftoral ilate, could 



never attain to that degree of improvement and happinefs, to which 

 agriculture, and the cultivation of vegetables, will cafily and ^oon 



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lead 



