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nations — yet the means of imparting knowledge are 

 very inadequately provided, and the encouragement 

 given to improve these means is far less general and 

 hearty than the urgency of the case demands. If 

 anything is to elevate the character of the people of 

 colour, it is the inculcation of moral and religious 

 principles, and the imbuing of their minds with 

 knowledge. In no other way can they be taught 

 self-respect, and effectually guarded against the de- 

 teriorating tendencies of their situation. Yet this is 

 a point, to the importance of which long prejudice 

 blinds the understandings of the white people, and 

 which the British Parliament seems not fully to have 

 considered, or at least not to have adopted adequate 

 means, to attain. 



Bishop Berkeley most wisely selected Bermuda as 

 the most suitable place for a college, from whence as 

 a centre its influence may be diffused, and its sphere 

 gradually extended, untU it at length embraces even 

 the whole of that wide field whose nature has already 

 been shown. 



The rays of intellect now divided and lost, will 

 be concentrated into a focus, from whence they will 

 be again radiated with added lustre, brightened and 

 strengthened by European light. Thus will our 

 colony not only become the centre of commerce and 



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