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saim- human nature.' that tells me that I am not to cut 

 my neighbour's throat, and drink his blood, tells me 

 that I am not to make him die at my feet by keeping 

 from him fond or raiment of which 1 have mure than 

 I want lor my o\vn preservation. 



Talk of barbarians, indeed; Talk of "the dark 



and hftrhtiro/'.- f the 



I )m -ID-;. <ueh barbarity a- that of putting mm to death, 



or of punishing them for taking to relieve their hun- 



of. In the year 1811, the 



Ucv. I'jiTiiH I' \. M. published a book, enti- 



tled ( 'oi.i.;:< T.\M:.\ i '.\Mi:m<-A. In the lirst volume of 

 that book, there is an account of the laws of the 

 CIENT Mia i . INS, 1 lume. and other Scotchmen, would 

 make u^ believe, that the ancient inhabitants of this 

 country were a set nf garages, clothed in skins and 

 ilie like. The laws of this people were collected and 

 put into writing, in the year 694 before Christ. The 

 following extract horn these law> shows, that the 

 moment eivil >o iety be_r:in to exist, that moment 

 the law / f h'tt i)>f)l<' *//' 



to tit-nth. That moment it i 

 >hould be made fur the destitute, or that, in 

 extreme neee^itv. men were to preserve themselves 

 from death bv taking from those who had to spare. 

 The words of these laws (as applicable to our case) 

 given by Mr. R : " There are 



three distinct kinds of per-onal individual property, 

 which cannot be shared with another, or surrendered 

 in payment of line: vi/.. a wife, a child, and argy- 

 frew. P*y the word (trffiifrt-ir i- meant, clothes, arms, 

 or the implements of a lawful calling. For without 

 these a man has not the means of support, and it 

 would he unjust in the law to iinmctn a man. or to 

 inic ill a man as to his calling." TRIAD 53d. "Three 

 kinds of TIMKVKS are not to be punished with DEATH. 

 1. A wife, who joins with her husband in theft. 2. 

 A youth under age. And 3. One who, after he has 

 asked, in rr///?, lor support, in three towns, and at 

 nine houses in each town." TRIAD 137. 

 49. There were, then, houses and towns, it seems; 



