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of nature . The United States of America , whieiv fferm ° ^ e among the great nations of the earth , owe their existence to British emigration , and furnish a wide market for English labour paying for manufactures with saw material . The
commerce of the Australian colonies , which half a century ago were not in existence , is already considerable . But the price paid for this prosperity has been tremendous . Human life seemed poured in vain upon the fatal shores of Virgina before a colony could be established . Attaching an idea of wealth to
the possession of land , from old association at home , the emigrants seized upon the land , which was lavishly gran ted , with avidity . The appropriated territory was so wide in proportion to numbers , that the settlers were dispersed . Combination for labour , for
humanizing intercourse , for defence , became impossible . Each man , settled in the midst of wide domain , was a , resourceless , friendless , defenceless solitary . Sickness , peril , and famine seized him unaided . His friends mourned his loss before he
died ; he perished after his memory was lost , in the grave himself had dug , unknown , unwept , uncared for . Or he rotted where the red man scalped him , or ceded to the bear in the mutual struggle for a dinner . At length slavery ] introduced , and the introduCtion of a portion of the
population who could not hold land eaunteraeted the dispersion caused by lavish granting . America lived upon tie blood of Africa . Peopled by crime , the unprecedented prosperity of the Australian colonies ( which is owing to the better apportionment at the first foundation of the population and land , by means of convict slavery ) , is cursed with
a depravity of society truly appalling . Success only makes the misery which is coupled with it the more apparent , and the most humane might almost rejoice to know that a Dead Sea had swallowed up the place . Without slavery , without convict labour , the Gape is still of good hope , though it has realised little prosperity .
Religious enthusiasm supported the New Englanders through strange trials ; and they were somewhat kept together by the perils of the surrounding woods , a community of feeling , and the habit of worshipping in large bodies . Within a few years a theory
has been elicited to direct the practice . * The prosperity of nations apparently depends upon the proportion which the three elements of production bear to one another . It is lucky for us that nature is' not quite so careless as colonial legislators have been . The same three elements , combined in different proportion , form delicious nutriment or deadly poison , —sugar , for instance , or citric acid . Proportioning the
* See < England and America / 2 vols . Bcntloy .
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842 The Colonization of New Zealand .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/46/
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