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inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said, at the
time of its discovery by Europeans, to have form. ed one great
desert. The Indians occupied, without possess- ing it. It is by
agricultural labor that man appropriates the soil, and the early
inhabitants of North America lived by the produce of the chase.
Their implacable prejudices, their uncontrolled passions, their
vices, and still more, perhaps, their savage virtues, consigned
them to inevitable destruction. The ruin of these nations began
from the day when Europeans landed on their shores: it has
proceeded ever since, and we are now seeing the completion of it.
They seemed to have been placed by Providence-amid the riches of
the New World to enjoy them for a season, and then surrender them.
Those coasts, so admirably adapted for commerce and industry; those
wide and deep rivers; that inexhaustible valley of the
'Mississippi; the whole continent, in short, seemed prepared to be
the abode of a great nation, yet unborn. In that land the great
experiment was to be made by civilized man, of the attempt to
construct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first
time, that theories hitherto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were
to exhibit a spectacle for which the world had not been prepared by
the history of the past. CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-AMERICANS
AND ITS IMPORTANCE, lit RELATION TO THEIR FUTURE CONDITION. Utility
of knowing the Origin of Nations in order to understand their
social Condition and their Laws.?America the only Country in which
the Starting-Point of a great People has been clearly
observable.?In what respects all who emigrated to British America
were similar.?In what they differed.?Remark applicable to all the
Europeans who established themselves on the shores ...
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