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speaking- here not only of the open, bloody war between the na- 
tives and the English, but of the struggle for existence, as it 
is carried out between man and man in all those innumerable 
circumstances, which are adduced as reasons, why in all parts of 
the world , in America , in Australia , upon T asmania and at the 
Cape of Good Hope, as well as in New Zealand, the natives are 
continually growing fewer and gradually dying out. 
In the vegetable and animal worlds, and among mankind this 
struggle is carried through according to unchangeable laws; — 
among mankind not only between tribes of different races, but in 
the same manner between natives of the same race , between states 
and states, between families and families, between individuals and 
individuals. 
What may be a consolation amid this ever lasting struggle, is 
that we know it to be a law of nature, on which the development 
of all creatures depends, that this struggle is not only a destructive 
one, but in the same measure a preserving and creating one. None 
but the weaker, the inferior, perish; the stronger and nobler ele- 
ment remains victorious. Thus every progress in the world depends 
on this struggle for existence , and as far as man is concerned in 
it, we may above all be consoled by the fact, that it is not physi- 
cal force , which decides the issue , but moral power and mental 
superiority ! 
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