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Of P9ptdation, Pro'4:is;G;;,
ciple it may be observed, firstly, that whEnever a me·
J chanica} invention succeeds in one p1ace, it is necessa-
1 ry that it be j.mitate~ in (:\":ry C?ti~er wh~re .the sam~
i manufacture IS ctlrned on ;/for It IS mamfest that he,
wbo bas the benefit of a cOtlciser operation, wi)) soon
outvie and undersell a competitor wh(I continues to
a
use a more circuitous l~bour.: It is also lrue, in the
second place, that whoever _pr;t discover or adopt a
mechanical improvement, \\:iil, for some time, draw
to themselves an inc--ease c;f employnl~nt; and that
this preference may continue even after the improve.
\..!Dent has become general : for, in every kind - of
trade, it is not omy a great but permanent advantage,
"'-1~, to· have once pre-occupied th