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these later days begun to fill the farther-sighted political econo- 

 mists with increasing apprehension. This is the full meaning of 

 the domestic colonization, this the great task of the new epoch 

 of agrarian policy, the threshold of which we have already crossed. 

 The knowledge of the past is a source of counsel and instruc- 

 tion for the present, of comfort and hope for the future. 



