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favages that dill occupy one-third of the globe, on the fol- 

 lies, vices, and crimes in modern civilization, the foibles 

 of the beft among us, I anxioufly inquire, does a confi- 

 derable portion of the human fpccies prefer falfehood to 

 truth, malice to goodnefs, and milery to happinefs ! or is 

 there a divine ray in the human mind, that gradually dif- 

 lipates the tv.'ilight and fogs of morning, and a heavenly 

 feed in the heart, that in its growth fuppreffes by degrees 

 the weeds and thorns of vice ! and changes the wild waftes 

 both of the earth and of human focicty into a delightful 

 garden ! my foul confides in the progrelfive improvement, 

 and final perfection, of all that fprung from the Joutrc 

 of good, and it abhors the doctrines of original depravity 

 and revolving changes of good and evil I //' tbe infancy of 

 of our f pedes was ignorant and freaky^ let us hope that the 

 fooli/h and ivicked boys of our times ivill be fucceeded by men. 

 Some of the names common to the limbs of men and 

 hearts fliow the near approach of favage to mere animal 

 life : ancient and modern languages have fuch, for exam- 

 ple, thole of our arms and their anteriors — H. Ch. \\-\\ 



arm is often ufed in this manner (as Num. vi. 19, 20. 

 Deut. xviii. 3 — ^f*^""'' occurs likewife in ancient Greek for 

 the fhoulder of quadrupeds — our Teutonic arm is akin 

 to the Latin armtis, that fignified the fame. The fangs 

 and clutches both of bipeds and four-footed are in Greek, 

 Hebrew, and other languages called hands, and not only 

 figuratively ; bccaufc many etymons, and many obfolete 

 names of hand ftill ufed for thofe animal organs, make a 

 primaeval identity very probable, as : — S. tajje, G. tatze^ 

 a paw — S. taga^ to take ; Gr. Ta^j^, to apprehend : L. tagax^ 

 rapacious — H. taag., F. tacl^c^ a talk — H. taaii^ a branch : 

 S. togg^ a pricket — F. grijfe, G. greiff, claw of large 

 prey-birds — S. gripa, D. gribe^ G. greifen^ AS. gripan, 

 to apprehend, gripe — Ir. griov, hand, claw, foot — S. gnf, 

 a large falcon : Gr. j-p'4, L. gryphus^ G. greifF, the grvt- 



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