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New Zealand, whose very portrait excites a shud- 

 der in the beholder. So far from seeking with 

 Rousseau and his disciples, for the true origin of 

 mankind, and the foundations of his [false] social 

 compact, in the conditions even of the best 

 savages, we regard it, on the contrary, as a state 

 of degeneracy and degradation." 6 



'"Philosophy of History," I, p. 48. 



