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thus the inhabitants of ditierent countries and places, as well as the men 

 of different ai'ts, are to work for each other, each to supply his quota of 

 good things, which good things are to be universally diffused by an 

 active commerce, so that every part may enjoy the good of all the pai-ts, 

 and men be made everywhere to feel the links which bind all together, 

 and to understand that honesty and fidelity, fraternal sympathy, and 

 peace and love, embrace the common interests and happiness of hu- 

 manity. Crush the industry of any one nation, and all the others must 

 experience the shock of a destitution. Crush the industry of any one 

 part of a common country or state, and one spring of public and gen- 

 eral prosperity is dried up. 



There are some lands where the spice trees and the coffee plant grow, and 

 others where vines and olives and oranges and the mulberry with the 

 silkworm grow, and there are others for tobacco and sugai-, and others 

 for cotton and rice, and others for corn and all esculent plants most 

 needful for man, and otliei-s with rich mines, and others with many 

 streams affording power for all kinds of machinery. And the most 

 natural and promising appropriation of human labor seems to be that 

 which is indicated by the climate, the peculiar qualities of the soD, and 

 whatever natural resources the conformation of the country may afford. 

 Thus, labor would be most productive, and the earth be filled with the 

 gi'eatest variety and abundance of good thiug-s. 



If, in connection with this, trade could be perfectly free, so that men 

 might easily exchange their different commodities, we should have a 

 state of things which Natui-e and Providence and Christianity have 

 alike ordained. Railroads upon the land, steamships upon the sea, and 

 the electric telegraph, all point to such a benign result, by making all 

 nations immediate neighbors, and enabling them to trade and converse 

 as famihar friends. 



We may talk of nations being independent of each other, but it is 

 mere human pride, and not Divine wisdom. God has designed that 

 neither individuals nor nations should be independent of each other. 

 One portion of the earth is as dear to God as another portion, and one 

 nation as dear to him as another nation. Nature, and Providence, and 

 Christianity, have not made the distinctions which we signahze, and of 

 which we boast ourselves. Men were made to aid and bless, and not to 

 destroy one another. And then will each part be most prosperous and 



