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utmost capability, by example and adequate 
encouragement, great ultimate good would 
accrue to the British empire. If by this its 
stability, greatness,' and prosperity could not 
altogether be made certain, they would at 
least be lengthened to a remote period of time. 
An aera more apposite than the present for 
using wise precautions has not occurred in its 
history, — when a general movement towards 
a change seems to pervade the greater por- 
tion of civilized society, — when a most power- 
ful nation in population and internal re- 
sources, armed with the thunder of war in 
one hand, and the magical rod of opinion and 
persuasion in the other, has shook the world 
like a tempest, and threatens to overflow it 
like a torrent. 
In the cultivation of the soil, as we have ' 
repeatedly declared, the real wealth and per- 
manence of nations consist. This is not our 
opinion alone, for it is sanblioned by that of 
the wisest philosophical economists of ancient 
and modern times, who, fortunately for hu- 
man society, have of late bent their minds tg 
