222 the savage and civilized man. Dee. 145 
THE SAVAGE AND THE CIVILIZED MAN. 
Fu savage rises in the morning, and prowls through the. 
forest for food,—if he finds it, he returns loaded to his wife, 
who couks it for him; her portion is what he may leave 
of the hasty repast. If he is unsuccefsful in hunting, he. 
takes in an additional hole in his girdle, and his family pines 
in want. 
The civilized man gets up with the sun—pursues his 
daily occupation—and the sure prospect ofa reward to his 
industry lightens the burdens of life ;—while the arts of 
civilization afford a perpetual security against hunger, na- 
kednefs, and cold. 
The savage has a precarious support.—Nature, it is true, 
provides the crystal stream, and his bow may stop the deer 
in its course,—but the stream is often remote, and the track 
of the arrow is frequently untrue. 
The civilized man may struggle with misfortunes; but he 
has a never-failing resource in the benevolence of society. 
The inhabitant of the woods has but few ideas, and few 
pleasures,—these are of the*ardent kind, and their acqui- 
“sition often interferes with those of his fellow savages—: 
the consequences are fatal. 
The civilized man has a boundlefs circle of enjoyments. 
His views are expanded, his ideas unlimited, his hopes are, 
excited by innumerable objects, and gratified ten thousand 
different ways. The legal restraints on his pleasures, ap- 
petites, and pafsions, enlarge the sphere of his felicity. 
The savage, disengaged from the chace, or war, leads a 
life of stupid insensibility.—There can scarcely be said to 
be any progrefs, or succefsion of events, in his existence, — 
*tis one perpetual now. 
The civilized man lives in himself—in his children— in 
_ the public,—and as he participates in the labours, he 
enjoys the happinefs of his country and of mankind. 
