To affirm, that the labour of the Manufacturer is unproductive, because he consumes as much of the produce of land, as he adds value to the raw materials which he manufactures, is not better founded, than it would be to affirm, that the labour of the farmer, which furnishes materials to the manufacturer, is unproductive, because he consumes an equal value of manufactured articles. Each furnishes a certain portion of the produce of his labor to the other, and each destroys a correspondent portion of the produce of the labour of the other. In the mean time, the maintenance of two Citizens, instead of one, is going on; the State has two members instead of one; and they together consume twice the value of what is produced from the land.
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1. The division of Labour.
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2. An extension of the use of Machinery.
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3. Additional employment to classes of the community not ordinarily engaged in the business.
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4. The promoting of emigration from foreign Countries.
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5. The furnishing greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.
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6. The affording a more ample and various field for enterprise.
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7. The creating in some instances a new, and securing in all, a more certain and steady demand for the surplus produce of the soil.Alexander Hamilton
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