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223. AGRICULTURE, Happiness and. [further continued].

In general, it is a truth that if every nation will employ itself. in
what it is fittest to produce, a greater quantity
will be raised of the things contributing
to human happiness, than if every nation attempts
to raise everything it wants within itself.—
To Mr. Lasteyrie. Washington ed. v, 315.
(W. 1808)