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products to every division, subdivision and modification of climate and 

 season. 



The inferior animals, being provided with the means of generating 

 heat within themselves, have a somewhat wider range than plants, which 

 are entirely dependant upon external heat ; and the range of the respec- 

 tive species of animals, is nearly in proportion to the perfection of their 

 respiratory apparatus. But each has bounds to his habitation which he 

 will not Avillingly pass, and beyond which he cannot be forced without 

 deterioration or destruction ; whilst man alone, the most perfectly organ- 

 ized of any, and the Divinely constituted lord of all, is endowed with a 

 physical nature, which, in the species, if not in the individual, can adapt 

 itself to every clime; and his superior capacity over the lower animals, 

 to enjoy the fruits of the earth, is in proportion to his superiority in 

 other respects. With the nature which God has given him, man can no 

 more divest himself of the desire to enjoy whatever, of every clime, is 

 pleasant to the eye and good for food, than he can rid himself of any other 

 attribute of his being. Here we find the same beautiful adaptation which 

 every where prevails in the physical world — a nature craving almost 

 endless variety, and almost endless variety to satisfy that craving. "We 

 ■cannot, therefore, conclude, without doing violence to the harmony of 

 nature, that variety in the products of the earth are merely incidental 

 to change of season and diversity of climate ; but must rather conclude 

 that those changes and diversities are only the means adopted by the 

 munificent Father of all, for multiplying his bounties and "filling our 

 hearts with food and gladness." 



But whilst the desire for universal enjoyment is felt and acknowledged 

 by all, the question as to how it is to be satisfied to the greatest practi- 

 cable extent, and with the best effect, has long been disputed. The earth, 

 except to a very limited extent, will not yield her products, otherwise 

 than as the reward of industry, and no one man can extend his labor 

 over sufficient space to procure directly, all the objects of desire. He 

 cannot, at the same time, cultivate a field of wheat in Wisconsin, a field 

 of cotton in Louisiana, a field of rice in South Carolina, a field of sugar 

 cane in Cuba, a field of coffee in Java, and a vineyard in Italy : yet all 

 these products, and a thousand others equally beyond his immediate reach, 

 are objects of his desire, and Avhen possessed, contribute to his enjoy- 

 ment. But how is he to possess himself of them? The natural and 

 obvious answer to this question, would seem to be — by uniting to the 



