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His voice and language are more uncouth, and more difficult to be

understood by those who are not used to them. His understanding,

however, being accustomed to consider a greater variety of

objects, is generally much superior to that of the other, whose

whole attention, from morning till night, is commonly occupied in

performing one or two very simple operations. How much the lower

ranks of people in the country are really superior to those of

the town, is well known to every man whom either business or

curiosity has led to converse much with both. In China and

Indostan, accordingly, both the rank and the wages of country

labourers are said to be superior to those of the greater part of

artificers and manufacturers. They would probably be so

everywhere, if corporation laws and the corporation spirit did

not prevent it.