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hence tlip greater tribes having ancient quarrels live in an 

 habitual state of iiostiiity.* 



Hence I think we may safely infer that the condition of 

 this remnant of the ancient patriarchal state, is far removed 

 from hiippiness, But on the contrary should rather be 

 deemed miserable, though not in the same degree as the 

 Chinese are. 



I 5. 

 Of the condilion of mankind in the Barbariafi state. 



BY a harharian state I understand that in which different 

 families or tribes are united under a chief whose authority, 

 tliough commonly despotic, is not derived from a common 

 parental right of superintendance, but either on election or 

 conquest, and includes some or other, or all the following 

 defects or essential imperfections. 



]«. That the rights of women are either injured or not suf- 

 ficiently protected. 



gdo. That either the life, or the liberty, or the property of 

 men is insecure. 



S**- That 



» Ibid. 202. ,.Volney, 245. 



