For that very reason, replied my father, "Because they cost nothing, and because they eat nothing," --the scheme is bad; --it is the consumption of our products, as well as the manufactures of them, which gives bread to the hungry, circulates trade, --brings in money, and supports the value of our lands: --and tho', I own, if I was a Prince, I would generously recompense the scientifick head which brought forth such contrivances; --yet I would as peremptorily suppress the use of them.
My father here had got into his element, ----and was going on as prosperously with his dissertation upon trade, as my uncle _Toby_ had before, upon his of fortification; --but to the loss of much sound knowledge, the destinies in the morning had decreed that no dissertation of any kind should be spun by my father that day, ----for as he opened his mouth to begin the next sentence.
'For that very reason,' replied my father, 'the scheme is bad. It is the consumption of our products, as well as the manufacture of them, which gives bread to the hungry, circulates trade, and brings in money. - If I was a Prince, though I would generously reward the scientist who invented such things, yet I would also suppress the use of them.'
My father here had got into his element, and was going on as prosperously with his dissertation upon trade, as my uncle Toby had upon fortification; - but the destinies had decreed that no speech should be spun by my father that day, for as he opened his mouth to begin the next sentence,