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ments for defence, and for repelling and retaliatins: 



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offered to their flate; all thefe confp 



to 



infinitely fuperior to t' 

 out the true caufes of 



before mentioned 



pr 



bes 



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mji 

 they 



are 



PRpGRESS 

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and 



even 



point 



happinef 



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imate cer- 



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tainly contributes a great deal to their felicity, and might be juftly 

 jdeemed the main fource of it. However, as we found farther to 

 tlie Weil, new iiles in the fame happy climate, and in the fame 

 latitude, the inhabitants of which, were neverthelefs, infinitely 



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inferior in point of civilization, and more defective in the enjoyments 

 of real happinefs ; it feems to follow, that there mull be, befides 

 the above-mentioned, fome other caufe of this remarkable circum- 



fiance. 



All the ideas, all the improvements of mankind, relative to 



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icitnct^y arts, manufadures, focial life, and even morality, ought to 



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b 



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beconlidered as the fum total oj the efforts of mwiklnd ever f nee ' 



Its 



ill 



The firil original tribes no doubt kept up con 



f 



nexions 



th one another, and thus they propagated and lioarded 



and 



up ufeful knowledge, eilablifhed principles, regulations, 



h 



chanical trades for the benefit of their poflerity. The fciences, the 



arts, manufadures, regulations, and principles of Egypt, and of the 



Eaftern nations, were known, and partly adopted by the Greeks, 

 from whom the Romans received their improvements -, and we 



ancients, after 



have recovered many, vs^hich ^ere in ufe among the 



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they 



