THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 
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step which European enterprize makes it thus followed by an 
accession of Chinese corruption, it is the more incumbent on Eu¬ 
rope that she no longer stand aloof from the natives, and aban¬ 
don them to the debasement of a civilization, purely industrial 
and sensual, to which she contributes to expose them. 
It is time that England should see and be shocked by the 
effects of her past policy or absence of policy in the anarchy, 
degeneracy, oppressions and vices which largely prevail in many 
parts of the Archipelago. England would then learn by what 
a small effort, in comparison with those which she is daily mak¬ 
ing for objects of far inferior magnitude and moment, she might 
make herself known in her true character in the Archipelago, 
and speedily free the slave from his bonds; suppress the trade 
in men and its asseciate piracy; mitigate and eventually abolish 
the heavy monopolies and restraints winch depress industry, and 
nourish oppression, fraud and corruption ; and, having thus given 
to the people freedom in person, property and mind, lead them, 
through her sympathy and pity and their docility and gratitude, 
to a willing reception of the humanizing and elevating knowledge 
of Christendom. 
