of Servants and Wretches which it never fails to create, it cruſhes and ruins the laborious Inhabitants of Town and Country: Not unlike thoſe ſcorching South-Winds, which covering both Trees and Herbs with devouring Inſects rob the uſeful Animals of Subſiſtence, and carry Famine and Death with them whereever they blow.
From Society and the Luxury engendered by it, ſpring the liberal and mechanical Arts, Commerce, Letters, and all thoſe Inutilities which make Induſtry flouriſh, enrich and ruin Nations. The Reaſons of ſuch Ruin are very ſimple. It is plain that Agriculture in its own Nature muſt be the leaſt lucrative of all Arts, becauſe the Produce of it being of the moſt indiſpenſable Neceſſity for all Men, the Price of this Produce muſt be proportioned to the Faculties of the Pooreſt. From the ſame Principle it may be gathered, that in general Arts are lucrative in the inverſe Ratio of their Uſefulneſs, and that in the End the moſt neceſſary muſt come to be the moſt neglected. By which we are taught to form a Judgment of the true Advantages
