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For, although it is my fixed intention to publish the ceNnERAL work, which has ever been my main design*(different parts of it being in a state of forwardness) the esta- blishment, here proposed, will not tend to frustrate that design. On the contrary, an establishment, uniting theory and practice on a large scale, will assist, most effec- tually, to forward and complete the general intention.

Under the impression that a plan, which is calculated to secure to this island a state of permanent prosperity, cannot remain long unexecuted, by its present possessors, I shall continue to digest the unpublished materials that I have now by me, and to arrange those which I have hitherto published; as well as to select the useful matter which other pub- lications may afford: in order that the Institute, by having what is known, as well

as what is wanted, brought into‘a state of

* See the prefatory address to the RURAL Eco-

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