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In Great Britain, the wages of labour seem, in the present times,

to be evidently more than what is precisely necessary to enable

the labourer to bring up a family. In order to satisfy ourselves

upon this point, it will not be necessary to enter into any

tedious or doubtful calculation of what may be the lowest sum

upon which it is possible to do this. There are many plain

symptoms, that the wages of labour are nowhere in this country

regulated by this lowest rate, which is consistent with common

humanity.