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The one, in his separate independent state, is less liable to the

temptations of bad company, which, in large manufactories, so

frequently ruin the morals of the other. The superiority of the

independent workman over those servants who are hired by the

month or by the year, and whose wages and maintenance are the

same, whether they do much or do little, is likely to be still

greater. Cheap years tend to increase the proportion of

independent workmen to journeymen and servants of all kinds, and

dear years to diminish it.