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cile his European prejudices with his remarks as 

 a traveller ; which produces perpetual contra- 

 didions in the courfe of his Work. *' It would 

 " feem,'* fays he, " that a childhood fo badly 

 " difciplined, mufl be fucceeded by a very turbu- 

 *' lent and very corrupted youth." He admits that 

 reafon direds thofe people earlier than it does 

 other men ; but he afcribes the caufe of it to their 

 temperament, which is, as he alleges, more tran- 

 quil. He recolledls not the pathetic reprefenta- 

 tions which he himfelf has exhibited of the fccnes 

 that their paffions prefent, when they expand 

 and exalt themfelves in the bofom of peace, in 

 their national aifemblies, where their harangues 

 leave all the art of our Orators far behind, as to 

 juftnefs and fublimity of imagery j or amidft the 

 fury of war, where they brave, in the face çf 

 fire and faggots, all the rage of their enemies. He 

 does not choofe to fee, that it is our European 

 education which deftroys our temper, for he ac- 

 knowledges, in another place, that thefe fame Sa- 

 vages, brought up after our manner, become more 

 wicked than others. There are paffages in his 

 Work, in which he prcfents the moft affeding 

 elogium of their morality, of their amiable quali- 

 ties, and of their happy life. He fometimes feems 

 jo envy their condition. 



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