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    The manufactureri are eager to avail themselves of the improved demand , and the supply soon becomes again superabundant , and wage * are again reduced . ' Mr * JW . Do you now consider the value of their labour permanently depressed ? * FttxmM * rme . I do ; and any slight- improvement in the demand will serve to employ a Jew snore of those who are upon their parishes , or in precarious occupations . Btjt J&tttiU mo ^ e ft&rfois c © p * equen < ie ftas flowed from . machlk e % vm dep reciating ihe value of that labour for which it is not immediately substituted , ' Mr . P < ti . How is that possible ?

    < Fiizotbone . Because it compels those , whose labour can be dispensed with , to seek employment where it is not introduced , thereby occasioning an increased supply of labour ' in other channels . To such an extent is , this evil spreading throughout society , that every species of labour , not excepting literary , i » reduced in value . Every individual in society , who is not living exclusively upon independent property , may be denominated a labourer ; that is to say , he is rendering some service , to society for which he receives remuneration . * Mr . Peel . But how can mechanics suppl y ^ that which can be obtained from those only of mental acquirements ?

    * Fitxoibome . In consequence of the general diffusion of knowledge , such qualifications have become much more common ; and if they are still rare among the working classes , many of the latter are enabled to rise some grades higher in the scale 01 society , and to become clerks in counting-houses and offices . ' In estimating the number deprived of employment by machinery , we should not confine ourselves to its effect on the local or market demand for labour in this country , but to its general consequences throughout Europe , America , and the

    whole civilised world ; but even in this country we must not leave out of the calculation the continued and increasing emigrations—the number of young men wanting situations as clerks , &c—those also who , unable to employ advantageously their small capitals , are compelled to live upon their limited means without occupation . If machinery is the indirect cause of depriving the poor man and his children of the * healthy cultivation of their little garden , and consigning them to the unwholesome and endless toil of a factory , of what moral or physical advantage is such an exchange of employment ?

    I am , Sir , Tours respectfully , » Thh Author of . ' Hampdbn , '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 892, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/74/