34 ji Change and Succession of Crops recommended^ 



not often perceive, must be indeed blind) progresses in 

 a system prescribed to her ; and employs various in- 

 struments to effect her purposes. The most flagitious 

 of the human race (who also perish in their turns,) are 

 frequently impelled to exercise, a subordinate agency 

 to chastise, destroy, and finally to produce a change, 

 renovation^ or substitution^ in nations, or races of men. 

 What immense numbers of our species, have, out of 

 the common course of mortality, and prematurely, to 

 our short sighted apprehension, been utterly destroyed ! 

 How many of the aborigines of South America, and the 

 islands near it, among other instances ancient and mo- 

 dern which might be imported from Europe and other 

 quarters of the old world, have been extirpated! Neai'- 

 er home — in our part of this Continent, in the spot we 

 now inhabit, the more modem theatre of a tragedy in 

 which Europeans and their decendants, have been the 

 chief actors — whole tribes, and nations, have been ex- 

 terminated ! Their names ai'e not known to us, who now 

 possess their soil. Their places are now tenanted, by 

 those destined to extinguish and succeed them. Ver- 

 min and diseases, of infinitely diversified descriptions, 

 are employed, for the purposes of change, and thereby 

 to effectuate the inscrutable designs of heaven, to pros- 

 trate the most exalted, as wtII as the most humble, of 

 the animal and vegetable creation. The pride of the 

 forest, the riches of the field, and the ornaments and 

 delights of the gai'den, are alike their victims. Tempests 

 and ijiundations, ravage, with resistless ruin. The mes- 

 sengers of destruction spare neither the palace, nor the 

 cottage. They deal out desolation, in a system of perfect 

 equality ! 



