Thence follows isolation; isolation leads to hatred; hatred to war; and war to _invasion_.

What matters it?
say the two _Sophists_; is it not better to expose ourselves to a possible _invasion_, than to meet a certain one?
And the people believe; and the barriers are kept up.
And yet what analogy can exist between an exchange and an invasion?
What resemblance can possibly be discovered between a man-of-war, vomiting fire, death, and desolation over our cities--and a merchant vessel, which comes to offer in free and peaceable exchange, produce for produce?
Much in the same way has the word _inundation_ been abused.

This word is generally taken in a bad sense; and it is certainly of frequent occurrence for inundations to ruin fields and sweep away harvests.

But if, as is the case in the inundations of the Nile, they were to leave upon the soil a superior value to that which they carried away, we ought, like the Egyptians, to bless and deify them.

Would it not be well, before declaiming against the _inundations_ of foreign produce, and checking them with expensive and embarrassing obstacles, to certify ourselves whether these inundations are of the number which desolate, or of those which fertilize a country?
What would we think of Mehemet Ali, if, instead of constructing, at great expense, dams across the Nile to increase the extent of its inundations, he were to scatter his piasters in attempts to deepen its bed, that he might rescue Egypt from the defilement of the _foreign_ mud which is swept down upon it from the mountains of the Moon?
Exactly such a degree of wisdom do we exhibit, when at the expense of millions, we strive to preserve our country....
From what?
From the blessings with which Nature has gifted other climates.
Among the _metaphors_ which sometimes conceal, each in itself, a whole theory of evil, there is none more common than that which is presented under the words _tribute_ and _tributary_.
These words are so frequently employed as synonyms of _purchase_ and _purchaser_, that the terms are now used almost indifferently.