In proportion, therefore, as the demand increases for the manufactures of Britain, by the increase of people in her colonies, the number of her people at home will increase; and with them, the strength as well as the wealth of the nation.
Franklin explains the economic relationship between Britain's manufacturing and its colonies' population growth.
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