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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 32: For July, 1819-October, 1819 In old and advanced countries, the great obstacle to the fur ther increase of wealth and population, is, the reduced effective power of Agricultural industry, brought on by the necessity of resorting to inferior soils for additional supplies of raw produce; while, on the contrary, in new or thinly inhabited countries, the main obstacle to prosperity arises from the low effective powers 'of Manufacturing industry, occasioned by the absence of those divisions of employment, and the want of that extensive machine ry, which, in densely peopled regions, reciprocally promote the introduction of each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.