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Letter 43 3 Letter X. Choice of the Trades Should be free
much less against my own Utopia, I would beg that law might be banished -- 170
from within my walls. I fancy my Contractor would not be sorry be as well pleased +
with its room as its company:to be rid of it: and as the same indulgence has been
granted to other persons of whose industry no great jealousy seems to
be entertained, such as Soldiers and Sailors, I have no great fear
the indulgence would be denied me. Much, I believe, is not apprehended,
in that way, from the Redcoats and Jack-Tars: and still less, I believe,
would be apprehended from my heroes.
This stumbling-block cleared away, the first thing, I
imagine, my Contractor would do, would be to set to work his good
hands: to whom he would add as many of his capable hands as
he could muster.
With his promising hands and his drones, he would
set up a manufacture. What then shall this manufacture be? It may
be this, and that, and t'other thing," says the Hard labour Bill:—
<hi rend="superscript">It shall be any thing, say or every thing, say I.
As to the question what sort of manufacture or manufacturer
would be likely to answer best; it is a discussion I will not
attempt to lead you into: for I do not propose at present to entertain
you with a critical examination of the several actual and possible
manufactures, established and establishable in Great Britain.
The case, I imagine, would be, that some manufacturer
or other, would be the man, I should have for my Contractor: a
man, who, being engaged in some sort of business that was easy to learn, and
doing
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