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 ¬formed those stupendous miraeles tor nothing: When our Scripture tells us that man was formed from the dust of the earth, it should not perhaps be taken in a sense too literal — to the Almighty, matter was not necessary for his creation, though his frame was to be material — it may mean that he could live only by the earth, and was to return to it after death. -"The first national object then is to feed your own people, and to find employment for them all. On such asubjcct you cannot ex- pect details, nor can you need them. — In a country whose splendid history you have passed along- like a kind of fairy tale before me, your means must be infinite. — You have not only the rich- est and most various surface to work upon, but subterranean treasures, inexhaustible and un- equalled ; you have still to make new roads and railways, and canals, and facilities of yet undis- covered descriptions, for the transport of their pro- ductions, which should over-spread your soil as if there were a net-work thrown over it. — The car- ¬