2 Voi/acje of the Novara. 



sources of the all-Important influence the ^'island race" exer- 

 cise over the destinies of humanity, should visit, not England, 

 but her colonies in America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. In 

 these he will see in full and beneficial operation, that system 

 which one of the greatest of German political economists, the 

 ingenious Fredrick List, recommended more than thirty 

 years ago to the German Government, when he spoke of 

 the serious detriment the Northern country sustained year 

 after year by tlie emigration en masse of skilled German 

 labourers, and when he repeatedly urged to make agriculture 

 under the tropics reciprocally beneficial to the manufacturing 

 industry of the temperate zone.* j 



England has comprehended better than Germany how to 

 utilize the energies of such of her children as emigrate to dis- 

 tant quarters of the globe, and to make them subservient to 

 her own advancement as well ; she evinced the most anxious 

 solicitude for these pioneers of progress, extended her pro- 

 tection to them, flung the segis of her own power over their 

 adopted home, regarding each new settlement as but an ex- 

 tension of the limit of her empire, as an enlargement of the 

 sources whence she drew the materials for her industrial 

 handicrafts, as a new market for her' manufactures ! In all 

 parts of the inhabited earth English activity has thus dis- 

 played itself, busily engaged in supplying the demand for raw 

 materials in her home market, by exchanging for them her 

 own manufactures, till English ships have become the all but 



• A National System of Political Economy. Stuttgart, 1840. (J. C. Cotton.) 



