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Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan.
the whole by the great advantage which is the peculiar fruit of
this new principle, what other master, or manufacturer, is there, who,
to appearance constantly, and in reality as much as he thinks proper,
has every look and motion of each workman under his eye? Without
any of these advantages we see manufacturers, not only keeping
their heads above water, but making their fortunes, every day.
A manufacturer in this situation may certainly fail, because
so may he in any other. But the probability is he would not fail:
because, even without these great advantages, much fewer fail than
thrive, or the wealth of the country could not have gone on increasing,
as it has done, from the reign of Brutus to the present. And, if
political establishments were to wait, till probability were to converted
into certainty before trial, Parliament might as well go to bed
at once and sleep on the same pillow with sister Convocation.
To speak in sober sadness, I dearly love, as
you will know, in human dealings no less than in divine, to think and
to say, as far as conscience will allow me, that "whatever is, is right:"
as well concerning those things which are done, as concerning those
which have been left undone. The gentlemen who gave themselves so
much trouble about the Penitentiary-house-plan did extremely well:
and for ag aught I know, the gentlemen, who put it under the table
at last, may have done still better. If you have a mind to share
with me in this comfortable feeling, turn once more to that discarded favourite
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