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lanthropy rather than of Pagan patriotism . Sir Thomas Browne , in his conjectures , entitled " A Prophecy concerning the future State of several Nations , " ( see M . Rep . vi . 450 . ) has the following lines , with their comments :
When Spun shall be in America hid , And Mexico shall prove a Madrid . ** That is , when Spain , either by unexpected disasters , or continued emissions of people into America , which have already thinned the country , shall be
farther exhausted at home ; or when , in process of time , their colonies shall grow , by many accessions , more than their originals , then Mexico may become a Madrid , and as considerable in people , wealth , and splendour , ' *
When America shall cease to send forth its treasure , Bat employ it at home for American pleasure . € C That is , when America shall be better civilized , new policied ,
and divided between great princes , it may come to pass , that they will no Umger suffer their treasure of gold and silver to be sent out to maintain the luxury of Europe
and other parts ; but rather era , ploy it to their own advantages , in great exploits and undertakings , magnificent structures , vyars , or expeditions of their own /' When the New World shall the Old
invade , , Nor count them their lords , but their fellows in trade . ' * That is , when America shall be so well peopled , civilised , and ^ divided into kingdoms , they are like to have so little regard of their originals , as to acknowledge no subjection unto them . They may aUo have a distinct com *
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merce between themselves , or , but independently , with those of Europe , and may liostilely and piratically assault them , even as the Greek and Roman colonies after a long time dealt with their
original countries . " - Browne ' s Misc . Tracts , 1684 . It is well known that about 1725 , Bishop Berkeley , then Dean of Derry , had a scheme for " converting the savage American * to Christianity , by a college to be erected at Bermuda / ' To
accomplish this object , he , was willing to exchange his deanery , worth 1100 / for a subsistence in America of 100 / a year . After expecting for some time a grant from Government , he abandoned
the project on the following honest advice from Sir R . Wai pole , communicated to Bishop Gibson . 4 C If you put this question to me as a minister , I must and can assure you that the money shall most undoubtedly be paid as soon as suits with public convenience z but if you ask me as a friend whether Dean Berkeley should continue in America , expecting the payment of U ) , OOOJ , I advise him by all means tq return home to Europe , and to give up his present expectations . ** ( Biog . Brit . 2 nd Ed . ii 255 . While this benevolent
Churchman ' s mind was intent upon his project , he wrote Verses on the prospect of planting Arts and Learning in America * in which
says his biographer , in 1778 , ( Id . ii . 254 ) ** another age ,, perhaps , will acknowledge the old conjunction of the prophetic character , with that of the poet , to have taken place . * ' Having described America a * a " happy ciirpe /'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/35/
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