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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...selfish, that we may trust to their goodness and generosity, dismantle our fleets, and disband our armies? It might be well to reduce them, if other powers would do the same. But were those of Austria too numerous last year? Is the Czar, with the smouldering embers of a rebellion, only just extinguished on his frontiers, likely to weaken his armaments? Is the great Republic of France so very calm and orderly, that we may surely rely on the permanently peaceful and friendly disposition of that warlike and excitable people, and of their changeable government? To preserve our institutions, liberty, property, and lives, is a primary duty of our rulers; and they would not fulfil it, unless they were to maintain an army and navy powerful enough to deter and to repel invasion,--"Britannia needs no bulwark, "No towers along the steep," PREMIUM OF INSURANCE FOR SAFETT. 59 on condition, however, that she shall guard her native seas with good ships and dauntless mariners. But armies and navies cost a great deal of money. It also costs money to insure warehouses against fire, vessels and their cargoes against shipwreck. Yet prudent men prefer to pay for insurance, rather than risk ruin; and a wise people will choose to he taxed for their defence, rather than dwell in perpetual insecurity. A rich and unwarlike kingdom is an irresistible temptation to poorer and more martial states; and if Great Britain, with her vast territorial and commercial wealth, and manufacturing industry, her colonies and settlements in every quarter of the globe, were to neglect the armaments necessary for her protection, a catastrophe might ensue, not only fatal to this country, but which would resound through the world, and be detrimental to the best and highest interests of the...
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