XXII 
INTRODUCTION. 
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. 
Thus England’s seed cast upon the earth’s surface 
germinates upon soils destined to reproduce her race. 
The energy and industry of the mother country become 
the natural instincts of her descendants in localities 
adapted for their development; and wherever Nature 
has endowed a land with agricultural capabilities, and 
favourable geographical position, slowly but surely 
that land will become a centre of civilization. 
True Christianity cannot exist apart from civiliza¬ 
tion ; thus, the spread of Christianity must depend 
upon the extension of civilization ; and that exten¬ 
sion depends upon commerce. 
The philanthropist and the missionary will expend 
their noble energies in vain in struggling against the 
obtuseness of savage hordes, until the first steps towards 
their gradual enlightenment shall have been made by 
commerce. The savage must learn to want; he must 
learn to be ambitious; and to covet more than the 
mere animal necessities of food and drink. This can 
alone be taught by a communication with civilized 
beings : the sight of men well clothed will induce the 
naked savage to covet clothing, and will create a 
want; the supply of this demand will be the first 
step towards commerce. To obtain the supply, the 
