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Mankind is never stationary in its improvement.

It is natural for mankind to proceed –
Individuals the life
may wreck by their misdemeanours;
nations may be obliterated by the faults inherent in their constitutions;
but mankind must tower over chance and remain unchecked in its
career. Its victories are the gains;
its defeats are not its losses – they
are still the
The obstacles
it meets in its progressive march serve
only to make it efforts give impart
an nobleness to its efforts, and brilliancy to
its triumphs

The annals of mankind bear witness to
this assertion. In different centuries we have
seen nations grapple either as truth
or illusions. Religious philosophy, political
schemes were the objects which have collateraly or separately
occupied engaged in their own behalf,
the energies of the mind. There never would
an end to pursuit and
Mankind had always
something
did never want some object of pursuit: and as soon
as the object point was given: there was never lack
of enthusiasm and forces to carry it through


Identifier: | JB/110/120/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

110

Main Headings

Folio number

120

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

a1 / / /

Penner

sir john bowring

Watermarks

fellows & sons 1821

Marginals

Paper Producer

lord auckland

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1821

Notes public

ID Number

36110

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