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in which, though populated, there is no form of 

 Government. The now tolerably well understood 

 law of population, and the less defined though 

 equally recognized principle of progressive develop- 

 ment, ever impelling man in a forward direction, 

 are gradually evolving order from confusion, and 

 as steadily fulfilling the divine ordinance. "Be 

 fruitful and multiply replenish the Earth and 

 subdue it." Here are fields in which consumers 

 may also become producers; but is this course 

 followed ? On the contrary, 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 pro 

 ducers 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 laboring 

 population " in those remote and isolated provinces 

 of India, which, though rich and productive, have 



