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Resolved
That it can never
be an object of
notional benefit
Economy to establish
a colony
behalf with a
view to trade, unless
there be good
ground for being
assured, that the
groun profit upon
the capital likely to be employ'd
in trading
with such colony
will within the
probable life time
of men now living
exceed the greatest
profit that could
otherwise be made
of the same quantity
of capital employ'd embasterd
in any other
trade, by a sum
greater than the
whole amount of
the expence of founding
– maintaining
governing and
providing for the defence
defending such
colony
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Resolved
That in any
Colony a number
of males superior
in any considerable
degree to the number
of females
can not be of any
use in point respect of
population
That am even
among in a number
of both sexes no
considerable progress
in population can reasonably
be expected
to be made in population
where the
greatest part of
the inhabitants
live in a state
of promiscuous
cohabitation copulation
That a state
of promiscuous
intercourse between
the sexes is not
conformable to the
community notions
of good morals, nor to those
of as
professed by the
Church of England.
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