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Ch. 2. Leading Features.

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{(e)} Divide into 12 branches the aggregate mass of profit-seeking industry.

Each calls, or at least has an equal right to call, upon government for

encouragement: - for encouragement, at the expence of the public purse: that is

of all the rest /other branches/. Gratify all alike, there is, as between them

at least, no injustice on the one hand, no profit on the other. Gratify any

number short of the whole, injustice is certain, profit questionable.

{To what institution at the public charge are objections most apt to be made? to

those of which the expence is minute, the profit infinite. To what least apt? To

those, of which the expence is great, the profit to the public precarious or

even negative. In these instances, in which reason is never present, pretence is

never wanting. In infancy in maturity, in decline: - flourishing or languishing

- profitable or unprofitable - claims to encouragement are urged with equal

confidence.

{Why} /Whence/ this inconsistency? {Because} /From hence: - that/ in the one

case, the profit is remote, and shared by countless multitudes; in the other,

immediate, and shared among a few. -

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