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most brilliant enterprises. AH 

 their own historians ileplore the 

 effects of this apathy, this fatal reck- 

 lessness, which has almost always 

 kept them dependent on the indus- 

 try of their neighbours, or at least 



behind them in improvement. 

 The happiest ages of their mo- 

 narchy have not been exempted 

 from this evil, which seems to be 

 as much the product of the climate 

 as of the adminislratioa. 



NATURAL 



