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APPENDIX. 



Note D, p. 4. 



Our milder moods, benevolence, gentleness, contempla- 

 tion — our refinement in sentiment — our " lovely dreams 

 of peace and joy," have negative weight in the balance 

 of national strength. The rougher excitement of hatred, 

 ambition, pride, patriotism, and the more selfish passions, 

 is necessary to the full and strong development of our ac- 

 tive powers. That Britain is leaving the impress of her 

 energy and morality on a considerable portion of the 

 world, is owing to her having first borne fire and sword 

 over these countries : the husbandman tears up the glebe, 

 with all its covering of weeds and flowers, before he com- 

 mit his good seed to the earth. Life and death — good 

 and evil — pleasure and pain, are the principles of im- 

 pulse to the scheme or machine of nature, as heat and 

 cold are to the steam-engine, thus moving in necessary 

 alternate dependence. Our moral sense, our perception 

 and love of good, could not exist without the knowledge 

 of evil ; yet, we shudder at the truth of evil being part 

 and portion of nature. 



Note E. 



There cannot be a more striking proof of the necessity 

 of a better representation of the marine interest, than the 

 fact, that our trading vessels are constructed of an unsuit- 



