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¬importer a fair prospect of profit, without which he would not import, but still keeping him in subordination to your own cultivators, without which your own soil will infallibly be neglected. — This system, however, need be but temporary, like parental duties towards an infant until his growth and strength are completed; because, to say that notwithstanding the most politic protections and bounties, such a country as you have described to me will be found unequal in the end to the support of its own popu- lation, or that provisions are likely to be dearer in proportion as your whole surface is brought into well-directed cultivation, are propositions which no man in England, who dreaded the re- straints ofamad-house, would venture to advance. ¬" Anticipating, therefore, that a more pro- tective system will now be speedily adopted, I may revert with some hope to the condition of your poor. When agriculture shall have re- vived, and with it the labour which is insepa- rable from its prosperity, the ancient legal -presumption, ¬
