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tries degraded by fervitude. The Have wiii 

 never deftroy thofe ingenious machines 

 which are equivalent to a multitude of arms. 

 He will never refufe to employ that virhich 

 tends to lighten the burden of his cluins, 

 If flavery has not totally extinguifhed his 

 reafon, he will, certainly, confider every 

 invention, and every procefs, whicli fervee 

 to alleviate his mifery, as the gift of Heaven. 



Let the friends of humanity then unite 

 to introduce every kind of induftry into 

 thofe colonies, in the profperity of vrhich 

 they are interellcd. Let them not be afraid 

 of multiplying machines in them, and of 

 employing every agent^ of which man, by 

 his ingenuity J has been able to render him- 

 felf mafter, Thofe, who in free and civilized 

 countries complain, that thefe grand inven- 

 tions may tend to deprive a multitude of 

 hands of employment, ought, at leaft, to 

 allow, tha,t they muft, on that account, have 



a falu- 



