A CORRESPONDENT sends us from his commonplace book the three following quotations, which bear closely upon thoughts very near to all of us nowadays what is true is this China needs neither import nor export, and can do without foreign intercourse. A fertile soil, producing every kind of food, a climate which favours every variety of fruit, and a population which for tens of centuries has put agriculture, the productive industry which feeds and clothes, above all other occupations—China has all this and more; Sir Rosenr Harr, o.c.a1.0.
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