Under a rational culture, those necessaries and those luxuries which must be obtained from the soil, undoubtedly can be obtained with much less work than is required now for buying these commodities.
He asserts that rational agricultural practices can yield necessary and luxury goods with less effort than currently required.
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But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.
The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.
He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.
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