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Show ga‘rfitdan-fir "M"; ~ flow-t," [G.P.] ON THE PEOPLING or COUNTRIES. REMARKS ON THE THOUGHTS good; inhabitants may be encouraged to (rattle, ducing them under one government Their power, and even {upported for a while; a good govern- ment and laws maybe framed, and men arts may be efhblilhed, or their prouiwe imported; but 22 well while difunited,.is lefs, but their liberty, as the g derin 'confi and, 3 fecure more as manners, is little danger of any conquef't to be made upon them, Ihad rather they {hould fuffer fomething al through difunion, than fee them under a gener rted conce that than able adminiltration lefs equit at A/13a1y*.-I take it, the inhabitants of Pmjyl'vania are both frugal and indufirious beyond thole of any province in America. If luxury {hould fpread, it cannot be extirpated by laws. Llifill'lll lump 23 \Ve are many necelTary moral habits are hardly ever found among thofe who voluntarily ofi'er themfelves in times of quiet at home, to people new colonies; befides that the moral, as well" as mechanical. habits, adapted to a mother-country, are fre- quently not {0 to the new-fettled one, and to» external events, many of which are always ung- forefeen. Hence it- is we have feen fuch fruit- lefs attempts to fettle colonies, at an immenfe told by Plutarch, that Plato ufed t0 fay, It was a public and private, expence, Ifzczrd #3ng to make lawrfor t/ae Cyrenians, a people aboundz'ng in plenty and opulence.- But from what] fet out with, it is evident. powers of Europe: And it is particularly obfervable that none of the Eng/1]]; colonies became any Way confiderable, till the necefi'ary if I be not miflaken, that education orrgy can item the torrent, and, without checking either by feveral of the true indul'try or frugality, prevent the fordid manners were bOrn and grew up in the country, excepting thofe to which fingular circumflances at home forced manners fit for the forming a frugality and lazinefs of the old Irifl), and new fiatel many of the modern Scoto/J, (I mean the in- habitants of that country, » thofe who leave it for another being generally indufirious) or the indufiry mixed with luxury of this capital, from getting ground; and, by rendering ancient manners familiar, produce a riLOUCliidtiOn between difintereflednets and Commerce; :1 thing we often lee, but ahnol't always in men ofaliberal education. ' ~ To conclude; 'w/Jen we wozrfd form a people, foil and Llimate may be found at leait fufliciently " [The reader will fee an account of this plan in the {ubfequent them. 13.] , v ' ' 5 ' good ; Iam, Sir, 85c," |