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Thus a lumbering or fishing region with us is apt to have a large proportion of needy inhabitants;
因此，大規模砍伐樹木和漁獵的地區易于擁有大量貧困人口，
and the same is true of a region exclusively devoted to cotton growing or gold mining.
特別熱衷于種植棉花或開采黃金的地區也是這樣。
A diversity of pursuits is indispensable to general activity and enduring prosperity.
對于維持活躍性和繁榮而言，工作的多樣性是必不可少的。
Sixty or seventy years ago, what was then the District, and is now the State, of Maine,
六七十年前，從前被稱為地區的，現在成了緬因州，
was a proverb in New England for the poverty of its people, mainly because they were so largely engaged in timber cutting.
在新英格蘭的諺語里就是指這個地區的民眾赤貧，主要因為他們絕大多數都從事木料加工的緣故。
The great grain-growing, wheat-exporting districts of the Russian empire have a poor and rude people for a like reason.
俄羅斯帝國盛產谷物，出口小麥的地區，也因為這個緣故百姓貧困，民風粗野。
Thus the industry of Massachusetts is immensely more productive per head than that of North Carolina,
因此，馬薩諸塞州的工業按人均來看要比北卡羅來納州的工業生產率高得多，
or even that of Indiana, as it will cease to be whenever manufactures shall have been diffused over our whole country, as they must and will be.
甚至比印第安納州也高，一旦制造業在全國遍地開花，這種趨勢才會停止，他們必定也必然會的。
In Massachusetts half the women and nearly half the children add by their daily labor to the aggregate of realized wealth;
在馬薩諸塞州，半數女性和將近一半的兒童都會通過日常勞動來增加實際財富；
in North Carolina and in Indiana little wealth is produced save by the labor of men, including boys of fifteen or upward.
在北卡羅來納州和印第安納州，除了男人做工外，包括十五歲或以上的青少年，別的群體幾乎不創造財富。
When this disparity shall have ceased, its consequence will also disappear.
當這種懸殊不再繼續下去時，其后果也會隨之消失。
