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 of Servants and Wretches which it never fails to create, it cruhes and ruins the laborious Inhabitants of Town and Country: Not unlike thoe corching South-Winds, which covering both Trees and Herbs with devouring Inects rob the ueful Animals of Subitence, and carry Famine and Death with them whereever they blow.

From Society and the Luxury engendered by it, pring the liberal and mechanical Arts, Commerce, Letters, and all thoe Inutilities which make Indutry flourih, enrich and ruin Nations. The Reaons of uch Ruin are very imple. It is plain that Agriculture in its own Nature mut be the leat lucrative of all Arts, becaue the Produce of it being of the mot indipenable Neceity for all Men, the Price of this Produce mut be proportioned to the Faculties of the Pooret. From the ame Principle it may be gathered, that in general Arts are lucrative in the invere Ratio of their Uefulnes, and that in the End the mot neceary mut come to be the mot neglected. By which we are taught to form a Judgment of the true Advantages