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Excerpt from Voyage in Search of La Perouse, Vol. 1 of 2: Performed by Order of the Constituent Assembly, During the Years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794, and Drawn Up
Having mentioned Providence, a word not Very'common 'in fome of our modern voyages, we are tempted to add a cdnfideration which has often occurred to our minds, in contemplating the probable iffue of that zeal for difcovering and correfponding with diftant regions, which has long animated the mar1t1me powers of Europe. Without obtruding our own fentiments on the reader, we may be permitted to afk, Whether appearances do not jufiify a conjeeture, ' that the Great Arbiter of the deftinies of nations may ren der that zeal fubfervient to the moral and intel leetual, not to'fay the religious, improvement, and the confequent happinefs, of our -whole fpe cies? Or, Whether, as has hitherto generally hap pened, the advantages of civilization may not, in the progrefs of events, be transferred from the Eu r0peans, who have but too little prized them, to thofe remote countries which they have been' fo diligently exploring? If fo, the period may arrive, when New Zealand may produce her Lock-os, her Newtons, and her Montefquieus.
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