Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-05-08
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The following 10 further translation from, the
French Of N. Come, whose reputation as writer OF
first rate power, is established by the work Of which
fiis 10 an extract:
Translated Pom THE CoNsrirorIuSAL VINO.
5s-s No. Ii.
Having shewn what are, in general, the objects OF
human intelligence, and what are the causes which
operate the most powerfully national manners, it
viii be easy to comprehend how it is that in certain
positions people have always remained stationary
and bnrbarous, while In others, they have made the
most rapid strides in civilization and refinement. To
explain this phenomenon, we huve but to enquire
what are the portions of the globe upon which q
people have been able to vary their meuns of subss-
te.nce with the least labor. What are the portions
which possess the facilities of communication in the
greatest degree: What are they which afford to the
inhabitants the power of proting by their own dis
coyeries, of exchanging the products of their own
soil and industry for those Of other nations of en-
riciling themselves by the riches or others? And
IN short, what nre they upon which vegetation ex-
perienccs but little interruption, and the seasons
the least interfere with the occupations of man.
2hete is no want of proofs to shew that those
parts of the ca, tn upon which human industry has
effected increase of the 1eans Of subsistence in
proportion to the increase of population, have al
ways been the mos. favorable to the development of
md that those places, on the contrary, where men
have been deprived of these natural advantages
they never have either improved OF multiplied
We are ignorant in what precise order vegetables
and animals have spread themselves over the sur
face of the EARTH but affirm, without fear
of being contradicted that between two things one
OF which can exist without the other, and the other
cannot exist without the trst that which is selfcxs
taut is always prior in the order of rcncrnlou-
There then of necessity have existed the pro-
per matter for the nourishment of vegetation be-
fore there could have existed vegetables, and We
getables must have preceded animals, which,
could not live but by their And thus though
we are ignorant many respects OF the progress of
cv,i'zation--though in the terms of which history
has preserved for us the remembrance, there may
have existed men in places where they do not
how exist, yet affirm that every coun-
try must have produced animals and vegetables.
PRIOR TO the period at which it commenced to people
Itseif. But If we may judge of these productions,
by those which found in places where human in
d7ssry has never reached, they have little variety
and augmentation to satisfy the immediate wants of
man.
All places ure not alike suited TO all productions
and these productions have not the same uniform
strength, even in places which are favourable to
their development Those plants which contain
great quantity of nutritpe matter, flourish where
but under gentle climate, and are commonly
very slow in growth. from whence it follows that in
plaoes which do not enjoy months of summer,
vegetation perisles before its development can be
complete, and consequently can never be propagated
but y the of artificial means. And since plants
which grow the sumo SOIL possessed of diffe-
rent degrees of strength those of the quickest growth
Will smother re feeble, and thus render then,
fatally unproductiye. From this it results that
when land is left TO It's natural fertility the produc
change with the climatc; and yet in each eli.
ruafe there Is tound but email Number, which, 50 to
spak, dispute urnu themselves the SOFT and render
cath other mutually unprodnctive. II now rcuaiils
for hs to show how these different circumstances have
had an influence upon the development OF every
People.
On casting rapid glance over the earth one per-
ceRes in AIN instant that the parts which are the
Anost peopled and the most ancienty civilized
are those which possess the most etua! and gen
riej tcmperature-and the most easy and trecuent
accommodations with others. And in countries
tar advanced in civilization, it is at the gults and en-
trances and the banks of rivers that we find the
densest population. Mankind in their nigrations are
subjected to laws invarable those which govern
che physical universe. Places affnrdg the greatest
means of subsistence those which arc first mia
SEed. inscarciing for the order followed in these
hnqraops, IT Is found that hey distributed themselves
by families in the manner in which the waters d-
Tlded. In every country where there conslera-
he streams, shall find generally. that upon ono or
the other bank of river, the people belo,g tie
same family speak the snme language, dialects of
tsc same, and have similar manners and customs.
This phenomenon which apparently exists in all
countries, may particularly be observed ON the
European Continent. Many rivers take their rise
in the mountains of the Alps, at short distance
frrsn each other: but they do not fOllnw the
direction. Ono directs its course towards the Ocean
--;inothor towards the Mediterranean, snd many
towards tho Adriaiic Sea- If one qscends fro m
the mouths of these streams, he will find upon their
borders people Of the race. If the Rhine be
ascsnded on either bank there are found people of
German descent. Ifw trace the wndiugs Of the
Rhone meet with those who speak the language
Of the French, and DO not find single family Of
GeTpnan extract. Others in the same way are peo
pied ny Italians. III the mountains from which these
Ifrtz-c H1tt bcrp lc ND fpln .af
rent people, and this confederation is composed of
French, Italians ind Germans.
Those divisions exist independent Of all political
combinations and of the governments to which the
different pSnpie subjected. Thus the population
which dwells the banks Of the Rhono and its trb-
utsrles. speak all one language though they par
takers in five different governments, that Of France,
of Piedmont, of Vanis aud of the Cantons Vaud g.
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