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Letter XV. Prospect of savings from this Plan
would, I take for granted, have been perfectly removed. Yet what should
make it stop any where short of the highest, of those stages, or what should prevent it from
being rising even considerably beyond above the highest of them, is more, I protest, than I can perceive. see On
what points a manufacturer setting up in such an establishment
would be in a worse situation than an ordinary manufacturer, I really
do not see: but I see many points on which he is in a better. His
hands indeed are all raw perhaps, at least with relation to the particular
species of work which he employs them upon, if not with relation to
every other. But so are all hands every where, at the first setting up
of every manufacture. Look round and you will find instances
enough of manufactures, where children, down to four years old,
earn something, and where children a few years older earn a subsistence,
and that a comfortable one. I must leave it to you to mention
names and places: You, who have been so much of an English
traveller, cannot but have met with instances in plenty, if you have
happened to note them down. Many are the instances you must
have found, in which the part taken by each Workman is reduced
to some single operation of such perfect simplicity, that one might
defy the awkwardest and most helpless idler that ever existed, to
avoid succeeding in it. Among the eighteen or twenty operations into
which the process of pin-making has been divided, I question whether
there is any one that is not reduced to such a state. In this point,
then, he is upon at least as good a footing as other manufacturers:
but
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