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[G.P.] 8 THOUGHTS ON THE prevent fuch importations, and, on the contrary, be promote the exportation of manufactures to called be may ies, countr n foreig in mcd coufu (with refpeét to the people that make them) generative laws, as by inereafing fubfiftence they encourage marriage. Such laws likewite ltrengthen a country doubly, by increafing its own people, and diminifhing its neighbours. 17. Some European nations prudently refufe to confume the manufafiurcs of Err/i Intern-‘- PEOPLING or COUNTR'IES. ' 9 grous duties, and educate their children therein more than others commonly do; fuch feét mull: confequently increafe more by natural renera tron, than any other {ea in Britain. 5 ~ 21. The importation of foreigners into a country thatrhas as many inhabitants as the prefentemployments and provifions for fubfiftcnce W111 bear, will be in the end no increaf e of people; unlefs the new-comers have more induftry and frugality than the natives, and then they W111 provide more fubfittence, and increaf e They lhould likewife forbid them to their colonies; for the gain to the merchant is not to be compared with the lofs, by this means, of peo-plc to the nation. 18. Home luxury in the great, incrcafes the nation's manufaé‘turers employed by it, who are many, and only tends to diminifh the families §_. 14, 16) will foon be filled by natural genera: tron. Who can now find the vacancy made in that indulge in it, who are few. The greater the common fathionable expence of any rank of the plague of heroifm 4.0 years ago ; in Frlmcey people, the more cautious they are of marriage. Therefore luxury thould never be fufibred to be- by the expulfion of the Proteftants ; in En [am], by the fettlement of her colonies; or in Gainer; come common. 19. The great increafe of olfspring in particular families, is not always owing to greater fecundity of nature, but fometimes to examples of induf'try in the heads, and induf'trious edu- cation; by which the children are enabled to provide better for themfelvcs, and their marry- ing early is encouraged from the profpeét of good fublittence. 20. If there be a feet, therefore, in our nation, that regard frugality and indultry as religious 1n the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out.--Nor is it necelTary to bring in fo- reigners to fill up any occafional vacancy in a country; for fuch vacancy (if the laws are good Sweden, France, or other warlike nations b by a hundred years exportation of flaves has blackened half America .P-~-The thindefsthat of the inhabitants in Spain, is owirw to national pride, and idlenefs, and other citufes, rather than to the expulfion of the Moon, or to the making of new fettlements. . 22. There is, in fhort, no bound to the pro- lific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and in terferin0 with each other's means of Ibbliftence. VVasbthe face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gra- C, dually |
