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PHILANTHROPIST:

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REPOSITORY FOR HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS

CALCULATED TO PROMOTE

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COMFORT AND HAPPINESS OF MAN.

.....dicam nunc quid homini tribuendum sit: quanquam id ipsum quod homini tri-
baeris, Deo tribuitur......

Deus, qui cæteris animalibus sapientiam non dedit, naturalibus ea munimentis
ah incursu et periculo tutiora generavit. Hominem vero quia nudum fragilemque
formavit, ut eum sapientia potius instrueret, dedit ei præter cætera hunc pietatis affec-
tum, ut homo hominem tueatur, diligat, foveat, contraque omnia pericula et accipiat et
præstat a ixilium. Lactantius, vi. 10.

VOL. VII.-FOR 1819,

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THE PHILANTHROPIST.

No. XXV.

Report of the Proceedings of the Committee on Indian Concerns to the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends at Baltimore.

THE readers of The Philanthropist are aware, how deep an interest we take in every thing which favours the progress of that portion of our strangely diversified species to which the above title alludes, out of their present unhappy condition-nearly the lowest and most unfortunate into which human nature has any where been found degraded: and how high a measure of approbation, or rather of admiration, we bestow upon the well-directed, the sagacious, and effectual measures, which have been pursued by the Society of Friends in the United States, for effecting the civilization of these their wild, but not intractable, neighbours. At page 27 of our first volume, the reader will find a summary account of the plan upon which these exertions have been conducted. Nothing seems wanting but the pecuniary means necessary for carrying the designs of its authors into complete execution, to push civilization with an amazing rapidity through the whole of the rude tribes in that part of America. Nothing indeed is wanting but pecuniary means, and a sufficient number of men endued with the spirit of the Friends of Pennsylvania, to carry civilization with an amazing rapidity, through the rude tribes of our species, over the whole surface of the globe. The experiment which has been made by these philanthropists appears to us to be quite decisive; and the discovery which they have made, of a combination of means which are irresistible in the power of extending civilization, one of the greatest discoveries which has yet distinguished the progress of the human mind. What is now wanting is, that men should attend to this experiment, to this discovery. What is wanting is, that they should be induced to make use

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