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The services of a family in managing a business are thus illustrated:
"If a man has not sons capable of looking after the different branches, he
must entrust the care of them to clerks and servants. But these are not to
be had ready-made:--he must, therefore, take a set of unlicked cubs and
teach them their business; and when that is fairly done, it is ten to one
but, having become acquainted with his business and his customers, they
find means to set up an opposition, and take effectually the wind out of
their former patrons sails. Where, however, a man has a large family of
sons, he can wield a large capital in business, and to very good purpose
too."
A man of fortune ought not to come to Canada. It is emphatically "the poor
man's country;" but it would be difficult to make it the country of the
rich. It is a good country for the poor man to acquire a living in, or for
a man of small fortune to economize and provide for his family.
Infant emigration, or the sending out of parish children, of from 6 to 12
years of age with a qualified superintendant, is a favourite idea of the
writer.
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