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C. "Pilroter mica “Discourse. 9 
oru E ue 
On he - fuppofition. of fach _inequali ty, it pa in in (a d act 
- l | for, by the pier | of natural : HE : 
__ for altho’ bef ret the difperfion of mankind over the earth, v ! 
ig AS tnerealed numbers made neceflary, the human faculties, 
by reafon of a famenefs in fituation. „and other circumftances, 
might i in general | be equal, yet in procels, of time an ineq 
‘obably take place from a change of c climate. 
“cat climates differ greatly i in their. degrees of tg and 
cold, as well as in their natural productions. The tend T 
& immoderate heat is to relax, . unbrace,. and debilitate | the hun 
reg and thereby diminith the powers of. .as 
| exercife 
p y making | 
d fufceptible of pese and lively ‘enfations, muf Minien 
affe& the mind. Hence, in. both cafes, an in eriority of in- . 2 
tellects. Buti in climates, duely mapei with heat and R 
de. T 
bas it it en to Puy | qug s, thar SERRA eis t 
difference is owing to different de fh 
‘them the body and mind are lefs or more vigorous. 
ide this be the cafe, what is faid above. refpecting the effect of iiini is not apir, : 
jutt $ for iier it is b acid that arom} cold, as well as heat, diminifhes the 
vigour ' ‘of both. 
The latter: E may, in fome sse ‘be fupported by the hiftory of the 
gene living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Ruffa, Lapland, and Siberia, 
ofe characters, both as to mind and body, do not give us ‘any exalted idea of » 
the vigour or ability of either. 
t Book xiv. chap. 2. AVugent's tranflation, the 2d, edits 
s appe not only at Y 
old ; but E in proportion to 
