The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil, Vol. 1: July, 1848 If we look around us, even now, we see commerce carrying war and deso lation into China. We see it promoting the slave-trade. We see in the depopulation of India, by French and English armies, the effects of com merce. We may see it in Algeria and in Tahiti, wasted by French armies, We may see it in the perpetual wars between England and France for' Worthless colonies. We seeit now in the unceasing changes and consequent ruin of the British West Indies. That commerce between distant nations is very desirable, is not to be doubted. It is well that the man of Old Eng land and New England should have tea, and sugar, and coffee, and that the man of Cuba and Brazil should have clothing, but that the inordinate love of commerce manifested by Holland, England, and France, has tended to ad vance civilization, I am unable to perceive. The real civilizer of the world is agriculture, and the highest civilization will invariably be found where the labors of the farmer are most aided by science, and where they are most largely rewarded by our great mother earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.