صفحة 7 من 2651

The labour, too, which is necessary to produce any one complete

manufacture, is almost always divided among a great number of

hands. How many different trades are employed in each branch of

the linen and woollen manufactures, from the growers of the flax

and the wool, to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen, or to

the dyers and dressers of the cloth! The nature of agriculture,

indeed, does not admit of so many subdivisions of labour, nor of

so complete a separation of one business from another, as

manufactures. It is impossible to separate so entirely the

business of the grazier from that of the corn-farmer, as the

trade of the carpenter is commonly separated from that of the

smith. The spinner is almost always a distinct person from the

weaver; but the ploughman, the harrower, the sower of the seed,

and the reaper of the corn, are often the same.