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while they each pursue their individual schemes, obeying one common influence, and contributing to one common end, some of them perhaps little dreaming or little caring that they are assisting in carrying out one of the noblest works in which it can fall to the lot of man to be engaged—the enlarging of the bounds of the civilized earth, and the sphere of human enjoyment, by the foundation of a mighty empire.
