A Very Curious, Interesting, And Instructive Work Might Be Written On The Improvements In The Cotton Machinery Alone, Which Have Been Made In This Country During The Last Forty Years:

We mean interesting and instructive, not merely on account of the tacts relative to mechanical ingenuity which it would

Unfold, but on account of the much higher history which it would give of the mechanism of the human mind, and of the connections and ramifications of the various branches of human knowledge. In what state would the commerce of Great Britain have been at this time, if the vast improvements in the machinery for spinning cotton had not been made and universally adopted? - and how slowly and imperfectly would these improvements have taken place, had the sciences been unconnected, or greater improvements, which at first were unseen or deemed impracticable, not been gradually developed, as lesser improvements were made. The stimulus of interest, the mutual connection of various branches of science, and above all the unceasing onward movement of the human mind in knowledge, speculative as well as practical, must be regarded as the most powerful causes of the present wonderful state of our manufactures, and, consequently, of our commerce.

2. The natural operation of enlarged capital is another cause of our great commerce. There is nothing more difficult in the history of mankind - not the history of their wars and politics, but the history of their character, manners, sentiments, and progress in civilization and wealth - [as->than] to distinguish and separate those facts which ought to be classed as causes, and those which ought to be classed as effects.

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