text:  We can comprehend "self-supporting colonization" in the individual sense of the pioneers and backwoodsmen of the United States; in the "squatting" upon wild lands in Canada and the West Indies; in the settlement of isolated adventurers among the savages of New Zealand; but the "self-supporting" settlement of communities or as more fancifully expressed of "society in frame " is just as sound in principle and as possible in practice as would be the calculation of the Canadian shipwright who should nail together a mass of boards and logs as a leviathan lumber ship for the transport of timber on the calculation that at the end of the voyage it would be rated A1 at Lloyd's or grow into the solid power and capacity of a first-rate Indiaman or man-of-war