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ledge as an article incessantly in demand there and not
here, they are a superior people; they live more, for
the range of Ideas is much wider, and their succession
quicker, where all energies mental and bodily are kept
in perpetual, unrelenting requisition: there is certain-
ly more misery in England than here but I doubt whether
there may not also be as much happiness.
In this country time is wasted among all ranks of
people, particularly among the lower ranks to whom it is
most valuable, because there is a general feeling and
persuasion that they can afford to wast it: occasional (c-final a underlined)
energy may be and is exerted, sometimes surprisingly; but
of habitual (a-a underlined) persevering energy, there is little, for the
all powerful stimulus of poverty is wanting. You cannot
excite the people to turn out even to defend their country,
for they are so happy and idle at home, that danger and
exertion are dreaded untill the moment arrives when they
must be met. How can you fill your armies with men, who
by an idle kind of Labour,at home, undergone when the fit
takes them during 4 or 5 days in the week, can earn all
that nature requires and whiskey enough for intoxication
into the bargain.
For want of Manufactures we have no science: it is
not only not in request because it is not needed, but it
is despised: this is une nation bouticaire. Shew a farm-
er a storekeeper or a merchant if you please, a piece of
Calico printed with three or four colours: he will stare