Svalbard has been hit by extreme rainfall in the past 10 years and seabird die-offs, something that used to happen infrequently, has become increasingly common.
It seldom happens that any part of it is applied towards the improvement of land; or is so employed as to contribute, in any respect, towards increasing the revenue of the great body of the people.
Great emergencies excepted, which would rarely occur in a society of which equality was the basis, a man could only be prepared to discharge the duties of public life, by the habitual practice of those inferior ones which form the man.