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ment at the command of every individual, however rapid the growth of numbers, than that societies should exert, in the prosecution of their collective interests, and the enlargement of their collective resources, the same prudential foresight which individuals are accustomed to employ in advancing their particular interests, and extending their individual means.

If he succeed only in obtaining the recognition of this great truth, the author's most ardent wishes will be amply fulfilled. It is pregnant with inferences which cannot but lead to results of incalculable benefit to the whole human race.

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