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not voluntarily support any toil. Their moral nature 

 appears to be far milder than that of the Asiatic, 

 and though occasionally liable to bursts of fero- 

 city, they seem capable of strong attachment, and 

 not destitute of the gentler affections. Still, whether 

 we contemplate them in their native Continent, or 

 as naturalised in America, they occupy a very low 

 place in the scale of Intelligence. 



If we pass in brief review the remaining members 

 of the human family, the savage tribes scattered 

 over different portions of the globe, we shall 

 nowhere discover indications of any great power of 

 improvement. The late Archbishop Whately was 

 of opinion that savage and uncivilised man could 

 nowhere attain to civilisation except under the tute- 

 lage of a more advanced race, and that generally 

 even with such guidance they were incapable of 

 reaching it. 



The history of the Xorth American Eed Indians 

 confirms this view. In a state of nature they are 

 represented as among the noblest of savages, but 

 they have never during three hundred years been 

 reclaimed from their wild lives, or induced to acquire 

 the rudiments even of civilised life. They have 

 never been incorporated in the society of the white 



