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DEGRADED S'rATE OF 'l'BE JEWS AT MOROCCO. 303tims to Roman:' virtue, until by it thrown to perish in the flames.strong affinity rUns here throughout between human nature and animalinstinct.They are now the swarm without a leader or a habita'..tion; whilst in att~ndancefor,the one, indifferent about the other, andliving on hope. ' The reasoning in the plain of Shinar was just. Oppression,however, as weIl as poverty, seems ta act in aid ofhumanmultiplication; the mandate of God prevails over the wrongs of man.In poverty, if exempted from the actual visitations of war, pestilence,and famine, the nllmbersmust still increase, still swell beyond the actuaIbounds of maintenance; for it is a procedure in which calculationtakes no placé. l'hè business of government is to still extend pro..portionâtèlytbeaetion at least, and therewith eventually the power and:resources of thé 8tate,by stin fipding useful employment for the' onIyreal wealth of the community, the numberofits hands.The1visdom ofpower is provèd in the results.Wisdom w'as bestowed on man to conductto happiness: and we may be assured, if political evil prevail ina common\vealth, there must he folly somewhere in the machinery.in thelowest part of the community the great law ofNature is e,veroperative, so there is inatistocracy, the deficiency whereof as a body isof Stlcb bad consequences herein Morocco" a dominatory process everopera.ti've,though not 50 conspicuousIy in converse. Ari8tocracy, how:.o 'eV'er absolutely necessary in politics, is not founded in nature. Nereisnobrall'ch of trade in whichthe Jews do not take an Interference,none inwhich their so doing' is not useful to the, Christian merbhant.They are active,deeplyintelligent, and labour, asmay besupposed, forverymoderate profits*.Among the extraordinary traits ofcharacter which mallkind presents,and whicb are, perhaps, no where more strongly marked than il1 tbisAAs*' Buzagl0, so weIl known once in London, Was a creditable specimen of a Moroquin Jew.