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tipty replenish the Earth and subdue it." Here 

 are fields in which consumers may also become pro- 

 ducers j but is this course followed ? On the con- 

 trary, we find the secret of colonization to lie in an 

 essentially opposite principle, and that unless shoots 

 from the parent stock take root and flourish in the 

 new soil, in their turn contributing as consumers 

 and producers for the mother country, the object of 

 the Divine law is not fulfilled the wealth of the 

 world is not proportionately increased. It has been 

 the knowledge of this simple principle, that has 

 made England's colonies her glory ; and placed her 

 at the head of the commercial nations of the world. 

 It has been the ignorance of this simple principle, 

 that, with population congested in many places, 

 has left whole provinces in India howling wilder- 

 nesses which might be smiling gardens, and thus 

 assisted in maintaining a stagnation antagonistic 

 to all progress. " The fixing of a new labouring 

 population " in those remote and isolated provinces 

 of India, which, though rich and productive, have 

 by the visitation of God or the inroads of savage 

 man, been wholly, or in part, denuded of inhabi- 

 tants, is not the duty of growers of tea, or coffee, or 

 cotton, or indigo, or other things which England 

 may demand, or any other individuals who come 

 with their capital and energy into the country to 

 aid the Government in developing its resources. 

 The question of colonization involves perhaps the 

 highest and best interests of civilization, and is pre- 



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