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  • Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

    Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.114