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Show [ 40 ‘1' [ 41 ] tho a poor Nation cannot ‘11 quired by general Indui'try, and urea with immediately and at once rival a 1ich one in " Sobriety, and according to good Morals, will its Trade and Manuraftures, yet it may do it by Degrees, beginning {nit with the coarlei and leis complicated Kinds, and then ad- " piomote fiil‘1 g1eate1 Indul‘try, and go on, for " any thing that appears to the contiary, {till " accumulating :"---I fay, he has mif'taken my vancing Step by .tep to others 11"ore com- pounded, operole, and colily; 'till at length it Meaning, if he imagined, that I roundly and 3dly. THAT hath reached [/2er Summit of;€'1rt,lntlultry, and Riches, from which the rich Countrv hath lately fallen, and from whence alto this upf'taiL Ad- venturer mul't recede in its Tum. And to firengthen this Reafoning, it may be obierw1ed, 4thly. " THAT all human Things have the " Seeds of Decay within themfelves :---Great pofitively there aflerted, that the Progrefs muff "-5, ad infinitum : For I did not intend to afiert any fuch Thing ; and one Reafon, amongothers, which ref'trained me, was the Confideiation that I am not Metaphyfician enough to comorehend what INFINITY really means. here101e what I undertake to maintain is this,---inat fuch a " Empires, great Cities, great Commerce, all Progreflion as here defcribed, may be fo far carried on, as evidently to prove,tthat no Man can " of them receive a Cheque, not from accidental " Events, but from neceliiuy Principle pofitively define,10/7671, or where it Inuit netefa- lHlllHlHl! THUS (land the Ubjec‘tions of that acute Philofopher, and celebrated Writer, who honoured the above Treatife with his ingenious Re- marks. 71731 flop: No Man can 1et Bounds to Improvements even in Imagination, and therefore, 'till the nap/215 ultra of all Advancement-3 in Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, in Agriculture, Let us novv the1eioie attend to the Trade, and Navigation, 69°C. {936. is Clearl11 Force of each of thefe ObJIC‘CL'lOHS with that demonltrated (a Y hingwhich Ip'.elurne no one will be111 hafle to attempt) we may trill be allowed to afleit, that the ricner manufacttning Nation will maintain its Super?iority over the poo1er one,_ notw1th {tanding this latter may he likewife advancing towards l‘eifec‘tion. lhis Care and Impartiality which the Caule of Truth deferves; and with that Refpeét allo, which is due to a Perfon of Eminence in the Republic of Letters. AND fit. I mutt beg Leave to obferve, that the Gentleman has, in Part at lealt, mil'taken my Meaning, where I fay, towards the Clofe of the Treatiic, ‘f That Gold and Silver ac- - i :1 quired being the Cafe, itfollows, 2dly. THAI my Hypotheiisis 10 1ar from inppofing that one Nation may engrofs the 11‘ Trade |