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er<nv< niouces, he would begin to settle down and to 

 cultivate the soil. Here (lieu mankind would have 

 reached the second sta»*e of improvement in wealth, 

 and thev would now, for the first time, have been sepa- 

 rated into two distinct classes, the suppliers of (boil or 

 necessaries and lh« m; j>pliers oi\*luects of luxuries or 

 convenience. But still, these two classes would not 

 be able to live far apart i for although the rtr*t might 

 dispense uidi luxuries, the second could not dispense 

 m iile fowl, and in liie more rapid progress which 

 cietv would afterwards make, it could onlv be on a 

 tery few detached spots, favorable as emporiums for 

 commerce that a population could exist, wholly by 

 un exchange of luxuries for food of foreign growth; 

 nor, in any stage of tfie advancing society might it be 

 safe for such a p'ipulati »u to depend on such a supply; 

 f>r, as Intfore obscrveu 1 , the consumers of these luxu- 

 ries mhiht dispense m it!i them in a time of scarcity, 

 and thus deny fa »d to the suppliers of them. Nature, 

 which has so bountifully given to man the ground to 

 till, has also ordained that every country shall not 

 produce the same species of &arib Hence it would 

 luppen that, except in cases where countries were 

 near to each other ami peopled hv similar races, the 

 various kinds of food yielded hy the different regions 

 on the globe would not, beyond their respective bofin- 

 dari<*. possess much if any exchangeable value, not 

 even should the intrinsic value of any one species of 

 food, whether corn or otherwise, be decidedly superior 

 to any olher species because nature has likewise so or- 

 dained that the population of any given country, w ith 

 extremely tm if any exceptions, prefer the -rain or 

 food which it yields to that of any other country, and 

 cannot be easily induced to sulistitute the latter tor the 

 former, even allowing that it were of a better and more 

 nutritious kind and that it could be cultivated instead 



