IX. TO MUSWELL-HILL. 



among ourselves, to build their cottages with 

 mud, and cover them with straw ? 



The Kamschatkan, at least, covers his with 

 the skins of the rein-deer and other animals; 

 while the shapeless huts of the European 

 peasant present not the smallest ornament, 

 and are frequently environed with infectious 

 marshes, which render their abodes as dis- 

 gusting as unwholesome. 



Let us not regard with contempt those 

 people who are not arrived at the same de- 

 gree of civilisation as ourselves. They 

 possess not all our arts, but they at least 

 possess those which are most essential. We 

 denominate them savages t but they are not 

 the less men. 



This truth will be much better understood 

 if we take a rapid view of the intellectual 

 faculties of man. 



Speech is certainly the noblest prerogative 

 of man, and that which places him at an 

 immeasurable distance above all animals. 

 But this faculty, which philosophers consi- 

 der 



