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new objeds, which they find and begin to ufe, oblige them to in- progress 



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vent new names for them, and for the manner in which they are vages. 



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employed ; and thus even the language becomes altered 5 nay, their 



way of fubfiiling, by the chace or fifliing, obliges them to live in * 



fmall tribes, diflant from others, in order to facilitate their fub- 



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iiflence. Formerly, when moderate hufbandry and the fponta- 

 neous growth of fine fruits in a happy climate, enabled numerous 

 tribes to live clofe together, they then enjoyed more leifure for 

 fecial life, they had the advantage of being mutually and power- 

 fully aflifted, and they communicated their improvements to each 

 other: nov/ they are deprived of the charms and choice of fociety, 

 which is confined to the few individuals of a family, or a fmall 



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tribe ; they are deftitute of any afliflance or protedion from their 



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friends; expofed to the fiercenefs of rapacious animals, perhaps to 

 the barbarity of fome other tribe of lavages 3 incapable of under 



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taking any work which requires the united efix>rts of a multitude ; 



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they make no other improvements, but tliofe which their narrow un- 

 derftanding comprehends, and is capable of; there being lefs chartceof 

 meeting with a man of genius, in a fmall, than in a greater number 



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of human beings^ Conftantly intent upon the means of procuring 

 the necefiaries of life, efpecially food, every other purfuit, every 



and the ideas therefore,, which are 

 or fifhery, are abfolutely loft to this 



other knowledge is neglected. 



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