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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: industrious) become a great, rich, and happy nation, instead of
the idle, and useless, and I am afraid not over good, people which
they have been. For in that eastern part of their own land God's
gifts are waiting for them, in a paradise such as I can neither
describe nor you conceive;--precious woods, fruits, drugs, and
what not--boundless wealth, in one word--waiting for them to send
it all down the waters of the mighty river Amazon, enriching us
here in the Old World, and enriching themselves there in the New.
If they would only go and use these gifts of God, instead of
neglecting them as they have been doing for now three hundred
years, they would be a blessing to the earth, instead of being--
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