Observations on an Important Feature in the State of Ireland (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Among the first great causes of that industry and trading activity which is so characteristic of England, are, the extra ordinary facilities Which every part of it possesses for the interchange of produce and products: first by lines of road and internal navigation available for the purposes of inter change among the several counties; and secondly, by the connexion these navigations maintain between the interior and the-sea-ports those great vents for the produce of sur plus labour, and inlets for the return of consumable foreign articles and luxuries 5 'tis these which impart a value to its labour, its skill, industry and science; and which, in their turn, increase the value of the very capital which these incidents have themselves created. It is labour thus rendered available, and not the mere command of capital, Which has brought England to its present state. England itself had once no capital but its soil and its population. Available, marketable labour, created capital; while capital, in its turn, like the shower which returns to fructify the soil, increased the facilities of trading intercourse. Thus capital and labour reciprocally become cause and effect, and the progression becomes endless.

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