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Excerpt from National Thoughts, Recommended to the Serious Attention of the Public: With an Appendix, Shewing the Damages Arising From a Bounty on Corn
It is a known and general obfervation that induftry creates trade -trade produces wealth; that the increafe of wealth will inevitably introduce luxury, which, in its turn, will dellroy every thing, by producing idlenefs and debauchery, which do gradual ly infeet the whole mafs of the people. That it is true in fact, that fuch has been the fate of all countries, which have rifen to any height of wealth, cannot be denied; but Ifhall notwithfianding contend, and do hepe to make it appear, that foch regulations maybe provided, as may prevent fuch con fequences, and make even luxury (0 far beneficial, as to be an incitement to the ia troduction of manufactures not yet eflablifh ed, as well as to the improvement of thole already eitablifhed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
