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 ¬riage of manure, of materials for building, and of all articles of traffic, or provisions, are heavy taxes upon the raw materials, and by every pos- sible means should be diminished ; an obser- vation equally applying to every species of human labour, whether employed upon the earth or in arts and manufactures, which should be cur- tailed and lessened not only by the utmost stretch of accidental inventions, but should be drawn out and rewarded and consecrated by the state. ¬" This may be thought a paradox whilst the poor are calling out every where for employ- ment ; but be assured no greater delusion ever existed than that the matchless ingenuity of your people, in the construction of mechanical aids, can in any possible instance be an evil. I was shocked, indeed, to hear of outrages, which I should have expected only to have existed amongst the very dregs of a civilized people. The mistaken or rather the delirious incitement, is when numbers are unemployed ; but how many more would be without employ- ment. ¬