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Show 48 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 49 . 3dly. THAT tho' a poor Country cannot immediately and at once rival a rich one in its Trade and Manufactures, yet it may do It by Degrees, beginning firf‘r with the coarfer and lefs complicated Kinds, and then ad. vancing Step by Step to others more com. pounded, operofe, and col'rly; 'till at length it hath reached that Summit of Art, Induflryj and Riches, from which the rich Country hath lately fallen, and from whence alfo this upl'tart Ad( venturer muf't recede in its Turn. And to firengthen this Reafoning it may be obferved 4thly. " That all human Things have the " Seeds of Decay within themfelves :---Great " Empires, great Cities, great Commerce, all of " them receive a Cheque, not from accidental " Events, but from neceflary Principles." THUS [land the Objections of that acute Philofopher, and celebrated Writer, who honoured the above Treatife with his ingenious Remarks. Let us now therefore attend to the Force of each of theft: Objections with that A" quired by general Indul'try, and ufed with f‘ Sobriety, and according to good Morals, will E‘ promotefiill greater lnduf'rry, and go on, for ." any Thing that appears to the contrary, {till F‘ accumulating :"-- l fay hehas mil'taken my Meaning, if he imagined, that I roundly and ,pofitively there afl'ertCCl, thatthe Progrefs muff he, ad infinitum : For I‘did not intend [to affert any fuch Thing, and one Reafon, among others, which refirained me, was the Conlideration thatI am not Metaphyfician enough to comprehend what'INFINITY really means. Therefore what I undertake to maintain, is this,-~That fuch a Progrelfion, as is here defcribed, may be fo far carried on, as evidently to prove, that no Man can pofitively define,vw/2m or where it mufi: neceflarily fiop i No Man can fet Bounds to Imiprovements even in Imagination: and therefore, 'till the 7% plus ultra of all Advancements in Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, .in Agricul- ture, Trade, and Navigation, {9%. E36. is clearly Care and Impartiality which the Caufe ofTru-th deferves; and with that Refpect alfo, which is fdemonfirated (a Thing Which‘Irprefume no one will be in Halle to attempt) we may f'till be al- due to a Perfon of Eminence in the Republic lowed to aH‘ert, that the richer manufacturing Nation will maintain its Superiority over the poorer one, norwithfi‘anding this latter may be of Letters. AND 1ft. I muf't beg Leave to obferve, that the Gentleman has, in Part at leaf't, miftaken my Meaning, where I fay, towards the ClOl'C at the Treatife, f‘ That Gold and Silver ac-v " quired 'likewife advancing towards Perfection. This being the Caufe it follows. I 2dly. THAT my Hypothefis is fo far from engrofls rise {Uppofing that one Nation may D ra e ;‘U|\l\|li\ll"l\' ', |
