STUDY VII. 139 



Time permits me not to give at large thofe dif- 

 ferent palTages that may be read in the Book from 

 which the above extraâ: is made, nor to produce 

 a multitude of other teftimonies, refpedling the 

 different Nations of Afia, which demonftrate the 

 perceptible influence that gentlenefs of education 

 has on the phyfical and moral beauty of mankind, 

 and which muft be, in every political conftitution, 

 the mofl powerful bond of union among the mem- 

 bers of the State. 



I fliall conclude thefe foreign authorities by a 

 touch which good John James Roiijfeau could not 

 have given with impunity, and which is extrad;ed 

 word for word from the work of a Dominican ; I 

 mean the agreeable Hiftory of the Antilles, by 

 Father du Tertre, a man replete with tafte, with 

 good fenfe, and humanity. Hear what he fays of 

 the Caraïbs, whofe education refembles that of 

 the Nations which I have been defcribing '^. 



" On mentioning the word Savage," fays he, 

 ** moft people will figure to tbemfelves a fpecies of 

 ** men, barbarous, cruel, inhuman, deftitute of 

 ** reafon, deformed, tall as giants, hairy like bears; 

 *Mn a word, rather monfters than rational beings ; 



* Natural Hiflory of the Antilles, vol. ii. treatife vii. chap, ir 

 fe^. I. 



*' though 



