Excerpt from Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Other British Provinces in North America, Vol. 1: With a Plan of National Colonization<br><br>Gas Lights, Steam Navigation, a Civic Police, Slave Emancipation, Cheap Postage, or Free Trade - to meet with opposition, from the classes who are most slow to perceive the advantages of improvement, and from those who are interested in maintaining things as they are; so it would be vain to expect that a proposition so bold and comprehensive as that of introducing an entire new system of planting Colonies abroad, should be received even with general favour. It must pass through its ordeal of abuse, ridicule, scorn, and contempt, like all other projects; and Time alone will decide whether it has within it the elements of truth, justice, and practicability, to sus tain it through the conflict.<br><br>I beg the favour, therefore, of those to whom this proposition seems at first uninviting, to remember well, that it is the common trick of those who will not give themselves the trouble to examine what is new, to excuse their indolence, and flatter their self love at the same time, by affecting a degree of wisdom so superior to that of ordinary mortals, as to be able to pronounce judgment without weighing the evidence, and oracularly to condemn everything which they will not give themselves the pains to understand, as visionary and impracticable. This has been the sentence of shallow-minded men, in every age, on every subject that was in advance of their own understanding or their own industry to make them selves thoroughly acquainted with; and this is the cuckoo-note of shallow-minded persons still.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.