...thrown insurmountable obstacles in the way of such settlements 456 POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE [BOOK v ; as might secure to these distant possessions, a great...their colonial system to islands of small extent, ur factories established on the coast of a continent. The inhabitants of Barbadoes, St. Thomas, or...

...country, has been but slow. ' Such principles,' says MH ' as prescribe the rooting up of the vine and olive, are not calculated to favour manufactures....the parent state in so far as it supplied a great quantity of raw materials, and consumed a number of the commodities carried — I there.' In spite,...

...MH ' as prescribe the rooting up of the vine and olive, are not calculated to favour mànuiactures. A colony has for ages been only considered as useful...the parent state in so far as it supplied a great quantity of raw materials, and consumed a number of the comu odities carried there." In spite, however,...

...mothercountry. Such principles as prescribe the rooting upof the vine and olive (exactly those of Spain) are not calculated to favour manufactures. A colony...carried there, by the ships of the mother country, "f * Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap 2. Art. Coloniei. t Essai Polit. &c. liv. 5. hap. 1*....

...agriculture. "A colony," Humboldt argued, "has for ages been considered useful to the parent state only in so far as it supplied a great number of raw materials. "74 Here was the initial insight leading to his social ecology. Humboldt's own complicity in colonial...

...agriculture. "A colony," Humboldt argued, "has for ages been considered useful to the parent state only in so far as it supplied a great number of raw materials. "?4 Here was the initial insight leading to his social ecology. Humboldt's own complicity in colonial...