text:  The cost of production indeed is prodigiously diminished by the substitute of these feeble or tiny labourers for that of full-grown men; and with it the profits of the masters and the circle of the export sale are proportionally augmented; but at what expense is this profit to a few gained? At the expense in some degree at least it is to be feared of the independence the comfort the morals the lives of whole classes of the labouring portions of the community