126 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



US, from the prejudices, which unhappily feparate 

 Mankind, to the univerfal laws of Juftice and Hu- 

 manity, by frequently putting our ills in the hands 

 of the fo highly vaunted conquerors, and our plea- 

 fures in thofe of the oppreffed, whom we hardly 

 deign to favour with fo much as our pity. 



When the Princes of Europe ilTued forth, with 

 the Gofpels in their hand, to ravage Afia, they 

 brought back with them the peftilence, the le- 

 profy, and the fmall-pox ; but Nature pointed out 

 to a Dervife the coffee plant, in the mountains of 

 Yemen, and produced, at one and the fame time, 

 our plagues from our Croifades, and our delicious 

 beverage from the cup of a Mahometan monk. 

 The fucceffors of thefe Princes fubjugated the 

 American Continent, and have tranfmitted to us, 

 by means of this difcovery and conqueft, an inex- 

 hauftible fucceffion of wars and venereal difeafes. 

 While they were exterminating the inoffenfive in- 

 habitants of it by their murderous artillery, a Ca- 

 raib, in token of peace, fet the failors a fmoking 

 his calumet ; the perfume of tobacco diffipated 

 their chagrin, and the ufe of it is difleminated over 

 the whole Earth ; and while the miferies of two 

 Worlds are illuing from the cannon's mouth, 

 which Kings call their ultima ratio, the confo- 

 lations of the civilized States of Europe, flream 

 from the pipe of a Savage. 



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