COMMITTEE. Chairman-The Right Hon. THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Vice-Chairman-The Right Hon. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P. Treasurer-WILLIAM TOOKE, Esq., F.R.S. W. Allen, Esq., F.R. & R.A.S. Rt. Hon. Lord Auckland. C. Bell, Esq. F.R.S.L. & E. John Conolly, M.D. J. Fred. Daniel, Esq., F.R.S. Viscount Ebrington, M.P. I. L. Goldsmid, Esq., F.R.&R.A.S. H. Hallam, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Rowland Hill, Esq., F.R.A.S. Sir J. Cam Hobhouse, Bt., M.P. Henry B. Ker, Esq., F.R.S. Dr. Lushington, D.C.L., M.P. John Herman Merivale, Esq., James Mill, Esq. James Morrison, Esq., M.P. Professor Pattison. T. Spring Rice, Esq., M.P.,F.A.S. Dr. A. T. Thomson, F.L.S. F.R.S. H. Waymouth, Esq. J. Whishaw, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. THOMAS COATES, Secretary, 59, Lincoln's Inn Fields. LONDON: Stamford Street. [re night, Charles 30074 UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR SOLD IN BIRMINGHAM, BY BEILBY, KNOTT, AND BEILBY, AND Price One Shilling, sewed; and One Shilling and three- BODLE LOCAL COMMITTEES Ofthe Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Ashburton-J. F. Kingston, Esq. Birmingham Local Association." Rev. John Currie, F.R.S. Chairma Paul Moon James, Esq., Treasurer. Hon. Jos. Parkes, Esq. J. Reynolds, Esq., Treas. Rev. Prof. Henslow, M.A., Rev. John Lodge, M.A. R. W. Rothman, Esq. Rev. Connop Thirlwall,M.A. LIBRA Rev. R. B. Paul, Lantwit. W. Williams, Esq., Aber Hull-Dan. Sykes, Esq., M.P. Launceston-Rev. J. Barfitt. Leeds-Benjamin Gott, Esq J. Marshall, Jun., Esq. Manchester Local Association. Sir G. Philips, Bart., M.P. Norwich-Rt. Hon. Lord Suf- Rich. Bacon, Esq. Portsmouth-E Carter, Esq. Rev. Dr. Inman, Nav. Col. Sheffield-J. H. Abraham, Esq. Shrewsbury,-R. A. Slaney, Esq., M.P. South Petherton-J. Nicholetts, THE RIGHTS OF INDUSTRY. INTRODUCTION. IT has been wisely said by a French writer, who has scattered abroad sound and foolish opinions with a pretty equal hand, that "it requires a great deal of philosophy to observe once what is seen every day *." To no branch of human knowledge can this remark be more fitly applied than to that which relates to the commonest things of the world,—namely, the Wants of Man and the Means of satisfying them. Upon this subject we now propose to address you. Man, it has been maintained, has greater natural wants and fewer natural means than any other animal. That his wants are greater, even in the rudest state of the species, than the wants of any quadruped-to say nothing of animals lower in the scale of being-there can be no doubt. But that his natural means are feebler and fewer we cannot believe; for the exercise of his understanding, in a variety of ways which no brute intelligence can reach, * J. J. Rousseau. |