3l6 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



furpafTes all the Nations of the Globe ; as they like- 

 wife do in wickednefs". We have already ob- 

 ferved, on the teftimony of mifTionaries them- 

 felves, with what gentlenefs Savages rear their chil- 

 dren, and what affedion the children bear to their 

 parents in return. 



The Arabs extend their humanity to the very 

 horfes ; they never beat them ; they manage them 

 by means of kin(3nefs and careffes, and render 

 them fo docile, that there are no animals of the 

 kind, in the whole World, once to be compared 

 with them in beauty and in goodnefs. They do 

 not fix them to a flake in the fields, but fuffer them 

 to pafture at large around their habitation, to which 

 they come running the moment that they hear the 

 found of the mafter's voice. Thofe tradable ani- 

 mals refort at night to their tents, and lie down in 

 the midft of the children, without ever hurting 

 them in the flighteft degree. If the rider happens 

 to fall while a-courfing, his horfe ftands ftill in- 

 ftantly, and never ftirs till he has mounted again. 

 Thefe people, by means of the irrefiftible influence 

 of a mild education, have acquired the art of ren- 

 dering their horfes the firfl: courfers of the uni- 

 verfe. 



It is impoffible to read, without being melted 

 into tears, what is related on this fubjed, by the 



virtuous 



