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1492. the savage and civilized man. 223 
The savage feels no anxiety for the future welfare of 
his family, however ‘numerous it may be.—He propagate 
his kind like the wolf of the desart, and his offspring are 
abandoned to a wayward fate. The cares, the solicitudes 
the anticipations, and peers of life, are equally wernaniiie 
to him. 
- The civilized man has his cultivated faculties continual- 
}y employed to promote the happinefs of his family—eve- 
ry addition to it isa new pledge of future enjoyment.— 
He feels the protection of civil government, and he cheer 
fully contributes to its support.——Protected in his acqui- 
sitions by law, he contemplates the transmifsion of his 
name, his inheritance, his rights, and privileges, to his jie 
terity, with unspeakable pleasure. 
_ The sayage has no abiding place——his only defence from 
the inclemency of the tkies, is in his case-hardened carcase, 
The civilized man, wisely calculating for the future 
contingencies of the seasons, in the retreat reared by the 
joint labours of afsociated industry, “‘ smiles at the tem- 
pest, and enjoys the storm.” 
The savage, while young, feels and glories in the vi- 
gour of his nerves ;—-like the young colt, he'snuffs the wind, 
and braves the tempest ;——but mark his declining years,—— 
time very early scars his visage, and the hanging down- 
drawn lip of the aged savage, fully evinces that his /ast are 
not his best days. 
_ The civilized man preserves, by temperance, the vigour 
of youth, till an advanced period.—His declining years are 
crowned with respect and veneration—and his last repose 
is in the arms of filial affection. / : 
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MR DEMPSTER’S IMPROVEMENTS. 
Extract of a letter from George Dempster of Dunichen, esq, 
£*T weep not tell you the last morsel of Letham is feued 
off; and houses, mills, &’¢, rising in it like magic, to my 
