Search the globe from east to west and from pole to pole – search every nation of every clime in the four quarters of the earth – search every rank and class in our own country from the highest to the lowest – and under every circumstance and condition, the report will be always the same. The remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, completely separate from Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, beyond the reach alike of Oriental luxury and Western arts and literature – islands inhabited by people ignorant of books, money, steam, and gunpowder – uncontaminated by the vices of modern civilisation –
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