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CHAP. XXXII.

ON THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF MANUFACTURES, ASCONNECTED WITH SCIENCE.

(335.) In reviewing tlie various processes whichhave been offered in the course of the present volume,as illustrations of those general principles which ithas been its main object to support and establish,it is impossible not to perceive that the arts andmanufactures of the country are intimately connectedwith the progress of the severer sciences ; and that,as we advance in the career of improvement, everystep requires, for its success, that this connexionshould be rendered more intimate.

The applie d sciences derive their facts from ex-periment ; but the reasonings, on which their chiefutility depends, come more properly within the pro-vince of what is called abstract Science . It has beenshown, that the division of labour is no less appli-cable to mental productions than to thoSe in whichmaterial bodies are concerned ; and it follows, thatthe efforts for the improvement of its manufactures,which any country can make with the greatest proba-bility of success, must arise from the combined exer-tions of all those most skilled in the theory, as wellas in the practice of the art; each labouring in thatdepartment for which his natural capacity and ac-quired habits have rendered him most fit.

(336.) The profits arising from the successful ap-plication to practice of theoretical principles, will, inx 2