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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XVI. 9. 4. 



Befides which the people of agriculture are more adlivc and robufi: 



than th 



people of paft 



d more ingenious in th 



to 



e 



foil 



more numei 



them in arms and 



them : which reminds us of th 



d ufe of machines neceffary for the more artful cultivation of tl 



md will confequently become fupe- 

 d may in procefs of time conquer 

 e Egyptian Dynafty of Shepherd- 

 kings, who were fubdued by their agricultural rivals ; and alfo of 

 the allegorical hiftory of Cain flaying Abel, which were probably the 

 names of two political hieroglyphic figures reprefenting the ao-es of 

 paflurage and of agriculture before the invention of letters. 



It muft hence certainly be an object of good policy to encourao-e 

 agriculture in preference to paflurage, which in this country micrht 

 be effeaed by preventing the enclofure of arable lands, and alfo of 

 thofe parts of commons, which are befl adapted to the growth of 



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though the whole might be advantageoufly divided into 



property. Unlefs fome other means 



Id be devifed of pre 



venting a nation from becoming too carnivorous, or of duly promot 

 ing the cultivation of grain, the former of which was heretofore pro- 

 duced by religious fafl-days twice a week, and the latter by bounties 



the exportation of 



To which might be added a total pro- 



rits, or into 





hibition of the deflruaive manufadory of grain into fp 



ftrong ale, and thus converting the natural nutriment of mankind 



into a chemical poifon, and thus thinning the ranks of fociety both 



by lefTening their quantity of food, and fhortening their lives by dif^ 

 eafe. 



In many villages, where much arable lands have been lately en- 

 clofed, the numbers of labouring people have quickly been much dl- 

 rainifhed both by the fcarcity of food, and want of employment. 



Worfe fares the land, to haftening ills a prey. 

 Where wealth accumulates, but men decay ; 



Princes or lords may flourifli, or may fade 



A breath can make them, as a breath has made 



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