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become a clieap and efficient protection to person and 

 property; and the necessary taxation being levied from 

 property alone, every indiAacIaal will purchase in the 

 cheapest market, and sell the produce of his industry in 

 the dearest. This period might, perhaps, be accelerated 

 throughout Europe, did the merchants and capitalists 

 only know their own strength. Let them, as citizens of 

 the world, hold annual congress in some central place, 

 and deliberate on the interests of man, which is their 

 own, and throw the whole of their influence to support 

 liberal and just governments, and to repress slavery, 

 crime, bigotry — tyranny in all shapes. A Rothschild 

 might earn an unstained fame, as great as yet has been 

 attained by man, by organizing such a power, and pre- 

 siding at its councils. 



Note C. 



The influence of long continued impression, constitu- 

 ting instinct or habit of breed, is a curious phenomenon in 

 the animal economy. Our population in the eastern 

 maritime districts of Britain, descended principally from 

 the Scandinavian rover, though devoted for a time to agri- 

 cultural or mechanical occupation, betake themselves, 

 when opportunity offers, to their old element, the ocean 



• The habit of bieed is apparent in many places of the world. Where 

 a fine river washes the walls of some of the internal towns of France, 

 scarce a boat is to be seen, except the long tract-boats employed in the 



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