h a Person as the Dean
before-mentioned for some Years, would be of extraordinary Service in
the present deplorable Circumstances of the Church of Christ in the
Government of _North Carolina_.

SCHEME III.

_Of Arts, Projects, Inventions, and Manufactures in_ Virginia.

It is an undoubted Truth, that in the Multitude of Inhabitants consists
the Welfare, Riches, and Power of any People; especially when all center
in Obedience to the same civil Power, and unanimously join in the
Encouragement of Trade, and industriously unite in the Improvement of
their Manufactures; for then the greater Consumption will be made of
such Things as tend to the publick Good, and the grander Figure will the
Community make, and the greater will be the Exports and Imports of such
Commodities as tend to the Increase of the publick Wealth, and private
Advantage of each particular Member of the Society.

A remarkable Instance of this we have in the _Dutch_, whose Riches and
Grandeur arose from the Increase of their Inhabitants, from their
industrious Improvement of Projects, Inventions, and Manufactures at
Home and Abroad, and carrying on the greatest Trade with indefatigable
Application.

For these Reasons should _Virginia_ be better stocked with Inhabitants,
and more useful Arts and Projects be promoted there, than hitherto have
been. Not that this would be in order for the publick Good of _Virginia_
alone, but of all the _British_ Empire in general; in that there might
be imployed all the idle and superfluous Persons, who for want of
Employment or Aversion to Business, prove as dead Members of the whole
Body; or else by Immorality and Villany prove noxious to others,
destructive to themselves, and a Scandal to Mankind.

What Shoals of Beggars are allowed in _Great Britain_ to suffer their
Bodies to rust and consume with Laziness and Want? And besides Strowlers
what Number of Poor are burdensom to most Parishes? How do our Streets
and Highways swarm with Rogues, and how are we over-stocked (as they
say) with vast Numbers of People of all Trades and Professions? But for
all and more than these might Work enough be found in our Plantations,
where they might be imployed in the Benefit of their Country, for the
Advantage both of the temporal and spiritual Concernments, by being kept
to Business, and getting Money in an honest Way.

It is a monkish Opinion too prevalent with many still, that there is no
good Living without the Bounds