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CHAP. IV. 



Of Emigration. 



Although the resource of emigration seems to 

 be excluded from such perfect societies as the 

 advocates of equality generally contemplate, yet 

 in that imperfect state of improvement, which alone 

 can rationally be expected, it may fairly enter into 

 our consideration. And as it is not probable that 

 human industry should begin to receive its best 

 direction throughout all the nations of the earth 

 at the same time, it may be said that, in the case 

 of a redundant population in the more cultivated 

 parts of the world, the natural and obvious remedy 

 which presents itself is emigration to those parts 

 that are uncultivated. As these parts are of great 

 extent, and very thinly peopled, this resource 

 might appear, on a first view of the subject, an 

 adequate remedy, or at least of a nature calcu- 

 lated to remove the evil to a distant period : but 

 when we advert to experience and the actual state 

 of the uncivilized parts of the globe, instead of 

 any thing like an adequate remedy, it will appear 

 but a slight palliative. 



In the accounts which we have received of the 

 peopling of new countries, the dangers, difficulties 

 and hardships, with which the first settlers have 

 had to struggle, appear to be even greater than we 



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