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or accelerated the development of men's nature in 

 these regions, offer sources of almost inexhaustible 

 inquiry and research. 



Children of the ocean, as we may call the inhabi- 

 tants of this archipelago, and maintaining with the 

 adjacent continent a constant and rapidly increasing 

 intercourse, the means ought to be afforded them of 

 prosecuting literary and scientific studies with facility 

 and advantage. 



Such may be the range of inquiry open to the 

 philosopher ; but to him who is interested in the 

 cause of humanity, who believes that the diffusion of 

 the humanizing arts is as essential to the character 

 of our nation as the acquisition of power and wealth, 

 and that wherever our flag floats it should confer the 

 benefits of civilization on those whom it protects,^ 

 to such a man it will seem no less important that, in 

 proportion as we extend the field of our researches 

 and knowledge, we should equally endeavour to 

 promote the advantage of those with whom we are 

 connected, and diffuse among them the means of 

 moral and intellectual advancement. 



To this end the revival of Berkeley College was 

 attempted. The object was merely, with the least 

 possible pretension, to commence an institution. This 

 institution, although in its infancy, and at present 



