Daily American telegraph., 1852-05-03

of which there are but too many in Europe
and India, it appears that wherever wealth and
population have declined, men invariably aban-
don the richest soils already under cultivation,
and betake themselves to the hill sides and
poorer lands, as more available and amenable
to their diminished means of cultivation. The
demonstration from the history of England is
most striking, and, as solution of the riddle
which the old style doctrines of the science left
to puzzle the observers of her progress, is well
worth the perusal of his work
| In regard to all the wants of man, except
that Of food, the possibility and growth of the
supply is admitted to keep, step for step the
every added aborer, every increase of capital
employed, increases tho quantity and the
cheaphess Of the commodity Iron, clothing
water, coal, houses, ships, roads, are obtained
for less labor and at less purchase cost in the
exact proportion that population and wealth
increases. A bucket of water in Philadelphia,
a yard of muslin, an axe, and the grinding OF
a bushel of corn. cost not the quarter OF the
labor or Of the price in the circulating medium
of the country, that they did fifty years ago,
when men and means Of production were four
times less than now. In respect to all the pro-
ducts of mechanic art, this beautiful harmony
Of circumstances and conditions with the life
and progress of the race is acknowledged.
Only in the matter of the prime and supreme
necessity for food it was denied, until Careys
book has silenced the controversy and yindica-
ted the system to which we belong in all the
principles of its economy from the suspicion OF
conflict and confusion.
This great question Of population and its
laws is not settled by the new light upon this
point, but the unmanageable difficulty of the
old controversy is wholly removed, and leaves
the facts open to a hopeful explanation and,
while it removes doubt, raises also new pre-
sumption, that the harmonies of existence will
be as manifest here as they are wherever the
whole of any other subject is certainly seen
or understood We welcome Mr.. Carey's plea
For Providence for many reasons, but especially
for the confidence which it adds to the prophecy
of the good time coming If provision is really
made for an unlimited number OF guests at
natures bountifu board if the correspondence
of resources to the demand which analogy in
Inmates is here secured, then the world has
nothing to do but adj ust its policy to the divine
arrangements, and be happy. Moreover, If the
system is one of good, better, best, in design
and drift, men uvtH work into conformity,
!, through whatever pain and labor, and the
worlds fortunes will brighten more and more
unto the perfect day; for if there is pre-es-
tablished harmony between man and nature,
his instincts will find the pathway of conformi-
ty, by impulse of the same intention which de-
signed the end and prepared the scheme.
In the mean time, a wholesome, hopeful
theory of our beings end and aim in this life
will justify and strengthen a philanthropic
policy where it exists by instinct, and generate
it in minds where even justice must wait upon
cxpediency and probability. Under its infu-
ence prudence will not stick fast in the bog Of
conservatism, but take the current of progress,
and the march of improvement will be to the
quickstep tune of an inspiring hope; for if
things are to get better as they get along, it
will be wisdom to hasten them, by arranging
for the early extinction of the wars, the sla-
veries, the poverty, and suffering, that are des-
tined to perish out of the world. **
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