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lar work, that is of so much importance, as that the means 
of knowledge, and the theory of all these processes, must 
be of easy access, and generally diffused throughout the 
country, where it is in constant demand. 
This is only one, and of one branch among the almost 
innumerable manufactures of Great Britain a d the other 
European nations. Is it possible to doubt, but what they 
must have more knowledge upon the whole than we have, 
whose concerns need it not ? Is it not evident that there 
is and must be among these people, more general energy 
in the various classes of society, and more accumulation 
of real power than among us ? For knowledge is power. 
All these objects of exertion by means of which Great 
Britain lays the world tributary at her feet, furnish her 
with wealth — and furnish her with men too in time of 
need : men for defence, and men for offence. It is ma« 
nufacturing machinery that furnishes men who can be 
spared when they are wanted — -it is manufacture that 
deaths, ay and manufacture that feeds them : for the 
general energy, and aim at improvement in manufactures, 
extends to and influences every other branch of industry : 
hence the English are the best farmers in Europe, pre® 
cisely because they are the best ?nanufacturers in Eu- 
rope. 
And yet some years ago, in the Legislature of the 
United States, it was gravely asserted, debated, and voted* 
by men who were the advocates of our dependence on 
Great Britain for the manufactured necessaries of life, that 
we were the most enlightened nation on the face of the 
earth ! and this circumstance too, this vote, was one of 
the proofs of the assertion ! and the silly declaimers who 
advanced this modest position, deemed themselves no 
doubt among the wisest of the wise ! In manufacturing 
speeches- — in debating for days what might be decided in 
minutes, we do ex eel. 
Vox,. III. B I 
