The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply

Military returns [reports of disease and death] serve to indicate to the restless wanderers of our race the boundaries which neither the pursuit of wealth nor the dreams of ambition should induce them to pass, and to proclaim in forcible language that man, like the elements, is controlled by a Power which hath said, Hither thou shalt come, but no further. - Tulloch, (1847, p. 259)