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Letter XI. Multiplication of Trades is not necessary.
and 8.th examples, viz: Sawing timber, Working at forges, and Smelting, I
see nothing to distinguish them very remarkably from three hundred others
that might be mentioned, unless it be the great room they all of them occupy
the great and expensive establishment which they suppose, or the dangerous
weapons which they put into the hands of any workman who may be
disposed to turn that property to account. 9.th As to Ropemaking, which
stands at the head of the less laborious class, besides being, as I have always
understood, remarkably otherwise, it has the particular property of taking
up more room than, I believe, any other manufacturing employment that
was ever thought of. As to the three last articles of the of the dozen
viz: weaving sacks, spinning yarn, and knitting nets, I know of no
particular objections that can be made to them, any more than to three-score others.
But, without going a stone's throw from the table I am writing upon, I
I could find more than as many businesses, which pay better, in England, than
these three last in other respects unexceptionable ones, which are as easy to learn,
take up as little room, and require a capital nearly or quite as moderate to set
up. By coming here if I have learnt nothing else, I have learnt what the human powers are
capable of, when unfettered by the arbitrary regulations of an unenlightened age: an
Gentlemen may say what they please, but they shall never persuade me that in England
these powers are in any remarkable degree inferior to what they are in Russia.(a) However not
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(a) Any One of my Brother's boys, who had not had been at nail-making a month, got
flogged t'other day for making a knife. Not that at Crichoff there is any law
against ingenuity; but there is against stealing iron and stealing time.
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