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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: laws. The men sent to Virginia *a were seekers of gold,
adventurers, without resources and without character, whose
turbulent and restless spirit endangered the infant colony, *b
and rendered its progress uncertain. The artisans and
agriculturists arrived afterwards; and, although they were a more
moral and orderly race of men, they were in nowise above the
level of the inferior classes in England. *c No lofty
conceptions, no intellectual system, directed the foundation of
these new settlements. The colony was scarcely established when
slavery was introduced, *d and this was the main circumstance
which has exercised so prodigious an influence on the character,
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