. The dictionary of arts, sciences and manufactures ... embracing in all nearly three thousand articles on arts and sciences. AGRICULTURE. 583 Introductory remarks. AGRICULTURE. Agriculture teaches the art of increasing the production ofuseful vegetables by cultivation. Although in the labours of a single husbandman, persons ofcommon observation are not apt to see any thing important,yet when a comprehensive view is taken of human affairs, it isfound that such labours are indissolubly connected with theindependence, the greatness, and happiness of nations. Thespontaneous bounty of nature would
. The dictionary of arts, sciences and manufactures ... embracing in all nearly three thousand articles on arts and sciences. AGRICULTURE. 583 Introductory remarks. AGRICULTURE. Agriculture teaches the art of increasing the production ofuseful vegetables by cultivation. Although in the labours of a single husbandman, persons ofcommon observation are not apt to see any thing important,yet when a comprehensive view is taken of human affairs, it isfound that such labours are indissolubly connected with theindependence, the greatness, and happiness of nations. Thespontaneous bounty of nature would supply but a small partof the present inhabitants of the world with food ; a singlefamily would consume the produce of a district sufficiently ex-tensive to be rendered capable of supplying the wants of thou-sands; with the assistance of cultivation, a thousand millionsadded to the present population of theearth, which is perhapsalready equal to that number, could demonstrably be suppliedwith abundance. Let us, for example, look at the state ofGreat Britain, where the value of estates is extremely high, andwhere, from
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