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But the success of attempts in this way, must evidently depend much on the manner of conducting them.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
This idea of an opposition between those two interests is the common error of the early periods of every country, but experience gradually dissipates it.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?
Report on Manufactures (1791)
They are, upon that account, the greatest of all improvements.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
The manufactures of Iron are entitled to pre-eminent rank.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
But the system which has been mentioned, is far from characterising the general policy of Nations.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
To produce the desirable changes, as early as may be expedient, may therefore require the incitement and patronage of government.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
The bowels as well as the surface of the earth are ransacked for articles which were before neglected. Animals, Plants and Minerals acquire an utility and value, which were before unexplored.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
There still are, nevertheless, respectable patrons of opinions, unfriendly to the encouragement of manufactures. The following are, substantially, the arguments, by which these opinions are defended.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
In the mean time, the maintenance of two Citizens, instead of one, is going on; the State has two members instead of one; and they together consume twice the value of what is produced from the land.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
That its real interests, precious and important as without the help of exaggeration, they truly are, will be advanced, rather than injured by the due encouragement of manufactures, may, it is believed, be satisfactorily demonstrated.
Report on Manufactures (1791)
The prodigious affect of such a Machine is easily conceived. To this invention is to be attributed essentially the immense progress, which has been so suddenly made in Great Britain in the various fabrics of Cotton.
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