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for these nations that they have hitherto lived even 

 so far undisturbed as they have, down to an age when 

 it becomes possible for the European to have close 

 intercourse with them, without carrying death and 

 ruin in his train, when with a more humane because 

 a wiser and more far-seeing policy than of old, it is 

 acknowledged that we cannot hope ultimately to 

 benefit and enrich ourselves, unless we act so that 

 our customers and allies be likewise enriched and 

 benefited. 



