STUDY III. 



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"* the human race *. Firft, feveral different fpecies 

 ** of men, fcattered over the earth, demonftrate 

 ** that they do not all proceed from the fame ori- 

 " ginal. There are fome black, others white, red, 

 " copper-coloured, lead- coloured. There are fome 

 " who have wool inftead of hair ; others who have 

 " no beard. There are dwarfs and giants. Such 

 *' are, in part, the varieties of the human fpecies, 

 ** every where equally odious to Nature. No 

 *' where does flie nourifli him with perfe6t good- 

 **' will. He is the only fenfible being laid under 

 " the necefllty of cultivating the earth, in order to 

 " fubfift : and, as if this unnatural mother were 

 *' determined to perfecute, with unrelenting feve- 

 " rity, the child whom fhe has brought forth, in- 

 *' fedts devour the feed as he fows it, hurricanes 

 ** fweep away his harvefts, ferocious animals prey 

 *' on his cattle, volcanos and earthquakes deftroy 

 " his cities ; and the pellilence which, from time 

 ** to time, makes the circuit of the Globe, threat- 

 *' ens, at length, his utter extermination. 



*' He is indebted to his own hands for his intel- 

 ** ligence, his morality is the creature of climate, 

 " his governments are founded in force, and his 

 *' religion in fear. Cold gives him energy; heat 

 " relaxes him. Warlike and free in the North, 



* The reply is in Study VII. 



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