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In order, however, that this equality may take place in the whole

of their advantages or disadvantages, three things are requisite,

even where there is the most perfect freedom. First the

employments must be well known and long established in the

neighbourhood; secondly, they must be in their ordinary, or what

may be called their natural state; and, thirdly, they must be the

sole or principal employments of those who occupy them.

First, this equality can take place only in those employments

which are well known, and have been long established in the

neighbourhood.