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cereals. As these grains journey westward, westward civilized 

 men journey. 



" Westward the tide of Empire takes its -way." 



It is probably for these chemical reasons, rather than from any 

 peculiarity of climate pertaining to ihose latitudes, that the 

 southern zones have never produced any eminent men — have 

 never contributed anything worth mentioning to the events of his- 

 tory. The conquering progress of the Anglo Saxon depends as 

 much on the superior power of endurance which pertains to his 

 bodily organization, as it does on the fact that more Anglo Saxons 

 than Indians can live on a square mile. His superior power of 

 endurance is derived from the superior nature of his food, and has 

 been very certainly shown to exist by the annals of our frontier 

 wars.* The African race, by the difference in the condition of 

 the American negro and that of native African, still further exem- 

 plifies this doctrine, while the fact that the bread fed colony of 

 Liberia does not degenerate into the rice fed aboriginal race, 

 almost proves it. If this hypothesis is true, the existence of 

 Liberia as a civilized republic, depends on the presence of the 

 cereals in that republic as articles of food,! and consequently, if 

 they cannot be raised in that climate, the progress of civilization 

 in that dark region of the earth depends on their commerce, on 

 their importation of bread stuffs, and their exportation of their 

 own tropical productions. It has been shown here on a former 

 occasion, how that mingling of the productions of the earth 

 effected by commerce leads to the highest physical condition of 

 men ; how the surplus of these productions, as of rice in one 

 region and of palm oil in another, and of cereals in another, and 



* The fact that the rice fed millions of Hindostan submit readily to the government of a 

 few thousand Englishmen, is in point, although more of them can exist on a square mile than 

 of Englishmen. Dispatches from the east agree that the Russian soldiers carry a coarse 

 Mack kind of bread in their knapsacks. 



■j- A gentleman who was for some years connected with that colony, informs me that the 

 colonists are relatively as different from the native negroes as white men are different from 

 the colonists, and that they delight to exerci^^e this superiority. He adds that the appetite 

 for bread is great among the natives— that they eat a dry crust of it as children among U3 

 eat sweet cake ; that they have another such appetite for salt, and carry it in little bags from 

 the sea coast to the interior. 



The cereals grow well in California, and I believe in Australia. 



