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OHAPTEE XXX. 
CONDITION AND WANTS OF THE PEOPLE. 
It is almost impossible to conceive of a 
condition more wretched, and more to be 
deplored than is the present condition of 
the people to which I have been inviting 
attention. Their condition is wretched, 
physically, intellectually and morally, and 
still, alas! their course is downward, and 
that downward progress is awfully accele- 
rated by influences emanating from men 
hailing from enlightened and professedly 
Christian nations, as we shall see in a sub- 
sequent chapter of this volume. 
They need entirely new institutions, social, 
educational, political and religious ; a com- 
plete regeneration, — and that this may be 
effected, it is essential that good and wise 
people go among them, to lay the basis 
of correct society, and introduce the arts 
and sciences. 
I would not be understood to convey 
the idea that this end should be aimed at 
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