TRAINING SCHOOL READER. EDITED BY WILLIAM J. UNWIN, M.A., PRINCIPAL OF HOMERTON COLLEGE. SECOND BOOK. London: WARD AND CO., 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. (500.w.171. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 8 THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST 60 ABSURDITY OF ATHEISM 15 THE CHARACTER OF CHRIST 70 PROPAECY—THE JEWISH PEOPLE 24 EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANITY ......... 79 THE EXISTENCE OF CHRISTIANITY 33 PALESTINE-GEOGRAPHICAL O T- PROPHECY-THE PROMISED MES. LINE 88 SIAH 97 MIRACLE 51 THE JEWISH PEOPLE ................... 107 ....................................... PAGB PAOB 189 OROGRAPHY ....................................... OROG RAPHY................................. 153 HYDROGRAPHY ............................ 219 Patural Philosophy. ... 217 THE PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS 111 | THE PROPAGATION OF HEAT......... 200 211 THE ATMOSPHERE......................... THE ATMOSPHERE........................ 167 THE MOON 231 Poetry. ................................... A SOUTH AFRICAN DESERT............ 113 , SONNETS SUNDAY ....................................... 138 | HYMN BEFORE SUNRISE IN THE THE ARMADA ............................. 147 VALE OF CHAMOUNI.................. 213 ....... 157 THE DEPARTED ........................... 223 THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS ......... THE TUDOR LINE .......................... 116 | THE STUART LINE ............................. THE TUDOR LINE ......................... 128 THE STUART LINE ........................ 194 THE TUDOR LINE ......................... 140 THE STUART LINE THE STUART LINE........................ 149 REVOLUTION OF 1668 THE STUART LINE........................ 159 THE STUART LINE ........................ 224 THE COMMONWEALTH .................. 171 Religious. 119 THE PURITANS ............................ 174 A CHRISTIAN 187 ........................ 197 TRAINING SCHOOL READER. SECTION 1. DIVISION OF LABOUR. THE cotton, of which a coloured neckcloth or a piece of lace is formed, may be supposed to have been grown by some Tenessee or Louisiana planter. For this purpose he must have employed labourers, in preparing the soil and planting and attending to the shrub, for more than a year before its pod ripened. When the pod became ripe, considerable labour, assisted by ingenious machinery, was necessary to extricate the seeds from the wool. The fleece thus cleaned was carried down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and there sold to a cotton factor. The price at which it was sold must have been sufficient, in the first place, to repay to the planter the wages which had been paid by him to all those employed in its production and carriage; and, secondly, to pay him a profit proportioned to the time which had elapsed between the payment of those wages and the sale of the cotton; or, in other words, to remunerate him for his abstinence in having so long deprived himself of the use of his money, or of the pleasure which he might have received from the labour of his work-people, if, instead of cultivating cotton, he had employed them in contributing to his own immediate enjoyment. The New Orleans factor, after keeping it perhaps five or six months, sold it to a Liverpool merchant. Scarcely any labour could have been expended on it at New Orleans, and, in the absence of accidental circumstances, its B |
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