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his buccaneering exploits, and his horrid infanticide, 
as destitute of either vice or virtue. But we would 
again return to our first position—that if under 
disadvantages both of a natural and moral kind, such 
a large mass of mankind can be kept together in a 
state of society by a code of laws so simple, and 
apparently so little calculated to produce such an 
effect; either there must exist a moral stamina far 
stronger than we have any idea of, or the simplicity 
of the laws constitutes their strength, and ensures 
-their observance. 
We will leave the reader to draw his own con¬ 
clusions; only remarking, that if Madagascar is to be 
civilized, and Englishmen are to be the agents and 
advisers, we trust they will consider well the genius 
and disposition of the inhabitants: and while they 
recommend the removal of the moral defects which 
disfigure the present system, they must be careful 
not to weaken the obligations which unite them so 
strongly together, by ingrafting thereon too many of 
the refinements of civil life. 
