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I THE COLONIZATION OF NEW ZEALAN ^*
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When England attained her maturity as a nation , in the Augustan age of Elizabeth , she began to produce offspring ; and she cannot be said to have intermitted the work of founding or nourishing new colonies
during the two centuries that have intervened . Her family , which is spread abroad over the great globe ( but more happily than the scattered countrymen of the pious iEneas ) , re-echoes her language from pole to pole , through the
fervour ot the lropics . An English shilling will fetch its worth , and sometimes a trifle morej in every quarter of the world . The energy of the people has overflowed the bounds of its field of employment , and , repressed even to pain by the narrow circle of its sea-beaten cliffs , has traversed the ocean in all directions . It
has been found that a country flourishes all the more for a good pruning . Practice should make perfect , and twq hundred years might have sufficed to enable England to learn how to plant a colony in a , , workman-like manner . Yet , in fact , the art of colonization remains rto better !
understood , in our . $ wn time , that when Raleigli sent out colony after coldtiy to perish through ignorance ^ in a stran ge land , or when- the pedant James I . set his uncouth hand to a code of blundering
regulations . The two great elements of national wealth , labour anil its offspring coadjutor , capital , which seem to possess withi ^ themselves the endless seeds ! c * f multiplication ^ show U >' - 'tendency to outgo the thirdy ^ the field of employment , which ? * -is
more inert in the jDrocjeM ' > of increase . To meet this ^ 'tendency , which in the- '* < && £ '* &f capital has only been l&tfely recognized , the constant effdrt will be to enlarge tha field-of employment . One means of doing so is by colonization . The division of employments ,
too , so popularly illustrated by Adam Smith in the mode of manufacturing a pin , as much augments the power of production when applied to nations as to individuals ; and' colonies afford ; not merely . 4 > vent for the surplus population and surplus capital of a mother country , but ar $ . caterers , f 6 » her as well , as tth ^ msejives in , the storehouse of
? The British Colonization of Ne { tv Zealand ; being ^ a Account- the Principles , Objects , and £ lan § of tli 6 Kew ^ ^ ealabd Association , ^ together vrith Particulars conoeniin ^ the Positibrt , Dxtent , Soil arid CVlrtint ^ i Natural Productions , and Native Inhabitant ^ o ^ New Zealandj With Gliurta unil Illustrations . Published for tha N ©^; Zeajand , Aseqci ^ i ^ n ,,, , J ^ q ndon ; ¦ John , ' W * / Parker . 1837 . f * ' Seem to possess / fi ot i ^ e subject is yet clothed in a tnys ^ ry too profound even for conjectu ^ ; iind the khWogfcbtf ti cttemi'itry , Iti W ^ eh ^ Uarent multiplation appears reiolfatye ittiq chati ^ point U > bne of : tb « ihOiJt cogont sources of doubt . .-. . ( M in 'ima - ' .. in \<\ l -- *\ r . a ; , u . ii : Vuit ' . > ' « ' * v «( 1 »^ A
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/45/
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