Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 38
Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 38]
dependant upon its the individual and component parts. Again, upon this same principle, that Government is the wisest, which by its [indecipherable] wholesome laws and enactments, inculcates the practice of domestic happiness to the widest possible extent amongst its subjects. The conqueror may by his gallant deeds earn imperishable fame the - render his name glorious in history, the statesman and may earn imperishable fame, but these may often be coupled with the most painful recollections, and depend rest upon the erroneous notions of man, who yields honour where none is due. But it is only within the domestic happiness [indecipherable] that man knows real happiness, and that country where nation amongst which this happiness is most universally diffused is the wisest, the most virtuous and the most valiant. Where the men of a nation rises in take up arms in defence of their wives and their children, who by their virtues deserve to be defended against the inroad of tyrants and foes, whose only aims are slavery and plunder, the arms of the righteous such have ever proved irresistable, and the terror of tyrants and foreign enemies.
Having stated thus much, and upon the principles that universal hope benevolence and general happiness are the aim and the ends of the creation, and that the interest of the whole earthly community is the interest of every individual in it, I shall observe that