XXII 
INTRODUCTION. 
the ingenuity of man, be rendered accessible; the 
natural productions of those lands may be transported 
to the sea-coast in exchange for foreign commodities; 
and commerce, thus instituted, becomes the pioneer of 
civilization. 
England, the great chief of the commercial world, 
possesses a power that enforces a grave responsibility. 
She has the force to civilize. She is the natural colo¬ 
nizer of the world. In the short space of three cen¬ 
turies, America, sprung from her loins, has become a 
giant offspring, a new era in the history of the human 
race, a new birth whose future must be overwhelming. 
Of later date, and still more rapid in development, 
Australia rises, a triumphant proof of England’s power 
to rescue wild lands from barrenness ; to wrest from 
utter savagedom those mighty tracts of the earth’s 
surface wasted from the creation of the world,—a 
darkness to be enlightened by English colonization. 
Before the advancing steps of civilization the savage 
inhabitants of dreary wastes retreated : regions hitherto 
lain hidden, and counting as nothing in the world’s 
great total, have risen to take the lead in the world’s 
great future. 
