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dy good families, which will be bound to you by 
respect and gratitude for this and other benefits 
you may devise for them in happy Colonies. 
06, But far more distant Colonies could also 
be attempted ; England is now colonizing Aus- 
tralia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Falk- 
larids, aiming next to Patagonia, California, 
Madagascar, Papua, &,c. — We have within our 
limits Florida and Origon . . . Texas has been 
begun altho’ thro’ violent means. The Earth 
is not yet half filled with human beings, while 
millions are still wanting lands or locations. To 
help them is a noble achievement, the founder 
of new Colonies may become equal to William 
Penn or Roger Williams if led by the happy 
genius of tolerance like'them. j 
G7, To foster Commerce is a public duty and 
the trade of merchants, but men of Wealth may 
increase it while they patronize it ; they might 
send trading Ships as well as Whaling Ships all 
over the world, to seek afld open new channels 
of trade, to collect the Botanical, Zoological and 
Mineral treasures of the shores and the deep 
ocean : many Lands and Islands little explored 
as yet are replete with novelties and treasures 
of Natural History for our Colleges, Museums, 
&,c. such are all the shores of East Africa, Bor- 
neo, the Moluccas, Papua or New Guinea, North 
Australia, and even those of Mexico, Guatimala, 
Guayaquil, Brazil. &c. 
G8, Roads, Bridges, Canals, and even Church- 
es, &c< are built with us by Corporations or In- 
dividual contributions for gain; but we lack/rce 
Institutions of all kind, where tuition or admis- 
sion be gratuitous; free Schools, Colleges, Mu- 
seums, Libraries, and even Churches: many are 
repulsed by compulsory taxation from the actual 
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