If tampered with by restrictive laws, or hampered by combinations, it suddenly disappears.

"The age of glory of a nation," said Sir Humphry Davy, "is the age of its security.

The same dignified feeling which urges men to gain a dominion over nature will preserve them from the dominion of slavery.

Natural, and moral, and religions knowledge, are of one family; and happy is the country and great its strength where they dwell together in union." Dublin was once celebrated for its shipbuilding, its timber-trade, its iron manufactures, and its steam-printing; Limerick was celebrated for its gloves; Kilkenny for its blankets; Bandon for its woollen and linen manufactures.

But most of these trades were banished by strikes.[5] Dr.Doyle stated before the Irish Committee of 1830, that the almost total extinction of the Kilkenny blanket-trade was attributable to the combinations of the weavers; and O'Connell admitted that Trades Unions had wrought more evil to Ireland than absenteeism and Saxon maladministration.