ABSTRACT
On reference to the above table, it will be found that those who are engaged in domestic servitude constitute the largest body of people in Great Britain - thus showing the extreme wealth and luxury of the country which can afford to maintain out of its earnings so many individuals as mere helps at home. The next greatest class are those who are employed in producing and rearing food, vegetable and animal, for the nation. After those who help to feed, come those who are occupied in clothing, the people - the cotton manufacturers and the boot and shoe makers. Then follow such as are employed in extracting the mineral treasures from the soil - the metals and the coals, to which we owe so much of our national greatness. Next in order come the army of paupers, and beggars, and almsmen, who live on the industry and benevolence of their countrymen. Immediately following these are the workers in wood - those who help to build and furnish our houses .. Then we have the people who make our garments-the tailors for the men's apparel, the milliners and dressmakers for the women's, and the weavers for both. After them come the workers in wool, in iron, in stone, in flax, and in silk. Then follow the clerks, to tell the wealth of our capitalists; and the schoolmasters and teachers, to tend the minds of our children. next in numerical importance stand those who rear the flowers, the fruits, and the pleasures of our tables; and after them those that cleanse and purify our linen.
