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Thus a lumbering or fishing region with us is apt to have a large proportion of needy inhabitants;
因此，大规模砍伐树木和渔猎的地区易于拥有大量贫困人口，
and the same is true of a region exclusively devoted to cotton growing or gold mining.
特别热衷于种植棉花或开采黄金的地区也是这样。
A diversity of pursuits is indispensable to general activity and enduring prosperity.
对于维持活跃性和繁荣而言，工作的多样性是必不可少的。
Sixty or seventy years ago, what was then the District, and is now the State, of Maine,
六七十年前，从前被称为地区的，现在成了缅因州，
was a proverb in New England for the poverty of its people, mainly because they were so largely engaged in timber cutting.
在新英格兰的谚语里就是指这个地区的民众赤贫，主要因为他们绝大多数都从事木料加工的缘故。
The great grain-growing, wheat-exporting districts of the Russian empire have a poor and rude people for a like reason.
俄罗斯帝国盛产谷物，出口小麦的地区，也因为这个缘故百姓贫困，民风粗野。
Thus the industry of Massachusetts is immensely more productive per head than that of North Carolina,
因此，马萨诸塞州的工业按人均来看要比北卡罗来纳州的工业生产率高得多，
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.
甚至比印第安纳州也高，一旦制造业在全国遍地开花，这种趋势才会停止，他们必定也必然会的。
In Massachusetts half the women and nearly half the children add by their daily labor to the aggregate of realized wealth;
在马萨诸塞州，半数女性和将近一半的儿童都会通过日常劳动来增加实际财富；
in North Carolina and in Indiana little wealth is produced save by the labor of men, including boys of fifteen or upward.
在北卡罗来纳州和印第安纳州，除了男人做工外，包括十五岁或以上的青少年，别的群体几乎不创造财富。
When this disparity shall have ceased, its consequence will also disappear.
当这种悬殊不再继续下去时，其后果也会随之消失。
