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of the food to be displaced ; and it is plain that if the 

 latter could not be done the attempt at substitution 

 would faiL 



But as each nation would, from its soil or geogra- 

 phical position, or otherwise, possess distinct natural 

 predictions independent of the principal one oHood, 

 hence these Mould become one of the mediums for 

 commerce, and whenever the cultivators, by the addi- 

 tion to the supplies of luxuries and articles of MMfe- 

 iiience produced by this increased supph to them of 

 food, should have created a greater quantity of such ar- 

 tificial objects than the population of the given coun- 

 try absolutely required, then the surplus would be- 

 come exchangeable for foreign luxuries and objects 

 of convenience. 



After men had reached this third stage, capital 

 would, for the future, oscillate betwixt the producers 

 of fond and the suppliers of artificial w ants and luxu- 

 ries. When food became so cheap as to lower [5ro- 

 I'Us, capital would gij to uianulactmvs. and when by 

 competition here, an over-supply was created and 

 prices fell, capital would be withdrawn. There 

 would be a constant tendency to an equilibrium, 

 il.r balance alternately inclining more or lesson 

 one side. 



Tln*e who have seen society in the most favored 

 spots on the globe reach a high state of refinement, 

 and ha\e alsu uHJcd nations and tribes, in all the 

 slaves of civilization betwixt that and the lowest 

 condition of the human race, may not feel disposed 

 in dispute the position, that the cultivation of the 

 soil is the basis on w hich rests all the real wealth, 

 and much of the moral wealth and laippiues* of the 

 human race. 



The pillars of the fabric may be lost to view amidst 

 the l ift v spires and buttresses winch they support. 



