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This inequality is, upon the whole, perhaps rather advantageous

than hurtful to the public. It may somewhat degrade the

profession of a public teacher; but the cheapness of literary

education is surely an advantage which greatly overbalances this

trifling inconveniency. The public, too, might derive still

greater benefit from it, if the constitution of those schools and

colleges, in which education is carried on, was more reasonable

than it is at present through the greater part of Europe.

Thirdly, the policy of Europe, by obstructing the free

circulation of labour and stock, both from employment to

employment, and from place to place, occasions, in some cases, a

very inconvenient inequality in the whole of the advantages and

disadvantages of their different employments.