text:  Of what incalculable use might the British navy be if even a part of it was employed in transporting the hundred thousand colonists who annually seek in our distant possessions or in the American States that profitable market for their industry which they cannot find amidst our crowded manufactories at home? And this is an instance of the manner in which the reflections of Montesquieu though made in reference only to the Roman empire are in truth applicable to all ages and countries; as the parables in the Gospels though delivered only to the fishermen of Judea contain the rules of conduct for the human race to the end of the world