It is not on the fertility of the soil, it is not on the
mildness of the atmosphere, that the prosperity of nations
chiefly depends. Slavery and superstition can make Campania
a land of beggars, and can change the plain of Enna into a
desert. Nor is it beyond the power of human intelligence
and energy, developed by civil and spiritual freedom, to
turn sterile rocks and pestilential marshes into cities and
gardens.--MACAULAY.
(1450)
=Human Life Lengthening=--See LONGEVITY INCREASING.
=Human Means=--See EVANGELIZATION.