118 CONCLUSION. 



abundance ; that they are literally animated with 

 the means of administering to the necessities, the 

 comforts, and the luxuries of every rank of soci- 

 ety. As an encouragement to trade they would 

 pour forth inexhaustible riches, and yet — won- 

 derful to say in this enlightened age — we see the 

 greater part of their valuable produce rendered 

 abortive, through the want of a law which would 

 compel the human species to act a part equally 

 dictated by humanity and by sound policy. 



