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+ Letter XI. Multiplication of Trades is not necessary.
So far as to the choice of businesses. As to the new
ones, I see no reason why any point should be made of multiplying
them: a single one well chosen may answer the purpose, just as well
as ever so many more. I mention this, because, though it may
be easy to find one species of manufacture, or five, or ten, that might
answer, with workmen so cramped, and in a situation so confined,
it might not be quite so easy to find fifty or a hundred. The number
of hands, for which employment is to be found, can scarcely be
admitted as a reason for multiplying the subjects of manufacture.
In such a nation as Great Britain, it is difficult to conceive,
that the greatest number of hands, that can be comprised in such
an establishment, should be great enough to overstock the market:
and if this one island of ours is not big enough, this globe of ours our planet is still bigger.
In many species of manufacture, the work is performed with more
and more advantage, as every body knows, the more it can be
divided: and in many instances, what sets bounds to that
division, is rather the number of hands the master can afford
to maintain, than any other circumstance.
When one turns to the Hard-Labour-Bill, it looks
as if the framers of it hand been under some anxiety, to find
out businesses that they thought might do in their Penitentiary-
houses, and to make known the result of their discoveries. It accordingly
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