The situation of new colonies, well governed, is a bloom of youth that no efforts can arrest.

There are, indeed, many modes of treatment in the political, as well as animal, body, that contribute to accelerate or retard the approaches of age, but there can be no chance of success, in any mode that could be devised, for keeping either of them in perpetual youth.

By encouraging the industry of the towns more than the industry of the country, Europe may be said, perhaps, to have brought on a premature old age.

A different policy in this respect would infuse fresh life and vigour into every state.

While from the law of primogeniture, and other European customs, land bears a monopoly price, a capital can never be employed in it with much advantage to the individual; and, therefore, it is not probable that the soil should be properly cultivated.