MCCARTHY — TRINIDAD AS A 
COMMERCIAL CENTRE. 235 
manently destroyed the commercial greatness of Ghent and 
Bruges and of the Italian cities, and for centuries that of Ant- 
werp; the glorv of Venice faded almost insensibly; and of 
many of the wealthy Hanseatic towns the very sites are unknown. 
We are all familiar with the rapid rise of Hong Hong and the 
rapid fall of St. Thomas. The removal, therefore, of commerce 
from one country to another is an operation with w uc y 
is familiar. The explanation is obvious— it is movable wealth 
which will not bear constraint. The moral is, I thin , e q ua J 
obvious — it is that commerce requires to bo studiec an assi 
duously nursed. 
No community — no individual is independent of, or in 
different to, the -affairs of his neighbour. Similaily, a lancies 
of industry are more or less interdependent. The agricu uris 
provides food and raw material for the manufacturer an ia ei , 
and they supply him with a market for liis produce. ia ® 1 '-> 
too, here as in every community, have a large sta ~e in le 
land, and everywhere they are among the most enterprising 
and enlightened agriculturists. But a trading community can 
flourish without any direct aid from agriculture. Hambutg ana 
Antwerp would still be wealthy if the adjacent country were or 
a hundred miles inland a desert; and a very large proport on 
of the prosperity of the great English ports has uo connection 
with English agriculture. Such places are, in t en com . 
aspect, merely centres for distribution,— forwar mg » .’ 
so to speak ; and in that capacity they have no goo^ of them 
own; they only handle those of other communities. Yet ^ 
many ramifications of their business a host of peop ^ 
ployed, and through them a stream of wealth poms 
producing part of the community. 
Broadly speaking, all industries have a ; Q 1 
but there are some peculiar to foreign » wol . ke d wonders in 
telhgent and progressive class, and it • - r i gtuart 
spreading intellectual as well as material riches John Stuart 
Mill mentions one advantage it confers w m especial 
oribe in hi, own words, and upon winch I 
stress “ Another consideration, he s, y 1 P bo i& a 
early stage of industrial developmer . P P^j lbcil . tastes 
quiescent, indolent, uncultivated state, f a il 
either fully satisfied or entirely undeveloped l and they^m & y q£ 
P ut the whole of their P rodu ^ reis;n tr ” de> by making, 
any sufficient object of desire.........— te ” pt j ng .them by the 
them acquainted with new' objects, Pj ' not previously 
easier acquisition of tilings whic 1 -3 ‘ f ; adus trial revo- 
thought attainable, sometimes works a SO A at mai 
