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enterprise, have carried with them, in profession,
principles of Truth and Duty unknown to the
ancient masters of the world, the Religion which
unfolds "the philanthropy of God" has not
had a sufficient hold on the minds of these
emigrants to overcome the contempt and
aversion awakened by the wide divergence of
the aboriginies from the ways of civilized men.
In some British Colonies the result
of the contiguity of our race and the aborigines
has proved the utter extermination of the latter.
In Australia the drama is not yet worked out,
and something may yet be done to make the
history of British influence on the destiny of the
aborigines of this continent different to what it
would be, if no just consideration of the responsibilities
which our relation to them involves were brought
to bear upon our conduct towards them. The
subject before us is, therefore, not merely one of
ethnographical curiosity; it is one that touches