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and remain in much the same state of ignorance . Consequently a man with a princely revenue is frequently so vulgar and gross in his external habits and manners , that no refined person can by possibility associate with him . When the manufacturers , both of food and other necessaries , shall learn wisdom ,
they will know that it is only by promoting refinement and intelligence amongst those they employ that they can free themselves from carking care and anxiety , and enjoy a state of real happiness , free from the thousand miseries of incessant suspicious watchfulness . lenthly . —Merchant-men—These are the great and small distributers of the results of the manufacture-men ' s cares and
labours , and mechanic-men ' s exertions . Merchantmen are rarely accustomed to consider the utility of any of the articles in which they deal , whether they may consist of raw or manufactured materials . All they have to do 'with them is to know that they will sell ; be it bread , corn or clothing , opium or
f in , nutriment or poison , they will alike deal in it , so long as uman beings can be found to purchase . Of course their dealings are modified by different laws in different portions of the g lobe , but a true merchant will sell any thing , as Inkle did Yarico . He will sell black men in Africa , and white men in
Asia ; inebriating opium in China , and trample on the emblems of his religion in Japan , in order to make a , good bargain . There are two classes of merchantmen , the wholesale and the retail . The former would starve whole nations for the sake of profit , were profit thus to be reaped , but , fortunately , larger profits are ( o be made by feeding nations . They would plunge nations into war for the sake of making a profit on the powder
and shot consumed ; but , fortunately , war is detrimental to commerce ; and , therefore , inerchant-nien , for the most part , prefer peace . Their calibre of intellect is commonly but small , as they conceive the greater part of human happiness to consist in chopping and changing :. In the good town of Liverpool
the two principal topics of their conversation are , " Cottons up—cotton ' s ( Town . " The small traders are equally keen . With them c all the world ' s a counter ' , and all the men and women merely customers and shopkeepers . If any accident happens whereby any amount of worldl y conveniences are destroyed , they immediately exclaim , " oh ! it makes good for trade . " The xrvy hvau ideal of all their fancies is the exclamation of the American mother upon hearing her friend praise tc
her two sons : Well , I £ ; ueftft , they are two tarnal cute lads , and if you were only to shut them up in a room together , without a cent in their pockets , before they would have been in an hour theyM have made five dollars a piece swapping jackets , I calculate . " As society advances , these small traders will disap-
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8 § 4 Social CldHlftcntton .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/30/
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