It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures