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Show o boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, h paves the road with iron bars, & mountin a coach with a ship-loa 1 an o through the country behin him animals h dart from town to town like an eagle or a swallow through the air By the aggregate of these aids, how is th face of the world changed, from the era o Noah to that of Napoleon! The private poo man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, buil for him. H goes to the post-office, an the human race run on his errands; to th book-shop an th huma rac read an write of all that happens, for him; to th court-house, and nations repair his wrongs He sets his house upon the road, and th human race go forth every morning, an shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him C_[ But there is no need of specifying par o we Gt G merchandis of men ticulars in this class of uses. The catalogu is endless, and the examples so obvious that I shall leave them to the reader's re flection, with the general remark, that thi mercenary benefit is one which has respec to a farther good. A man is fed, not thath may be fed, but that he may work |
