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the South Sea, though uncon- 



PROGRESS fettled in thefe unhappy regions, it has been owing either to chance 



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or cruel neceffitv. 



The inhabitants of the iflands "in 

 neded with highly civilized nations, are more improved in every 

 re^eft, as they live more and more djflant from the poles. Their 



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food is more varied, and abundant j their habitations more roomy, 

 neat, and adapted to the exigencies of the climate ; their garments 

 more elegant, improved, and ingenious ; their population is 

 greater; their focleties better regulated; their public fecurity 



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their 



againft foreign invaders more firmly eflablilhed; tneir manners 

 more courteous, degant, and even refined ; their principles of 



morality better underflood. 



and 



generally pradifed; 



their 



minds capable of, and open to inilrudlon; they have ideas of 



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a fupreme being, of a future ftate, of the origin of the world; 

 and the whole contributes greatly to increafe their happTnefs, 



natural, moral and focial branches 



both 



individual 



and 



as a nation. On the contrary, the wretched mortals towards the 



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frozen zone, are the mofi: debafed of all human beings, in every 

 refpe<5l. Their food is fcanty, loathfome, and precarious ; their 

 habitations the moft miferable huts that can be imagined; their 



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garments rough, and by no means fufiicient to fcreen them agalnft 

 the rigours of the inholpitable climate; their focleties thin, and 



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svithout any mutual ties or affedion ; expofed to the infults of all 



invaders. 



