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REMARKS 



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THE 



PROGRESS race of men. They mull therefore of courfe, by degrees, degene- 



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rate into a debafed forlorn cond 



and all the notions of im- 



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of apes, and the refult of the reafon and the 



wits of thoufands be forgotten j their reafon, for v/ant of being ex- 

 ercifed, is at laft brought fo low, that nothing but the mere ideas 

 of animal life, the inflinds of brute creation remain ; Grangers to 



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focial feelings, and flill more fo to focial virtues, they herd together 

 by cuflom; fenfuality, and the enjoyment of the few wants of na- 



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ture, make the whole field of their brutifh defires ; and of that 

 bright image of divinity, of expanded and fublime knowledge, ( 



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the confcioufnefs of good and virtuous actions, of the noble and 

 generous flruggle in the caufe of virtue and focial happinefs, hard- 

 ly a few fparks remain. 



If we were to fum up the a 

 ought to colled: from the above fads 

 the mildnefs of the climate contributes greatly to foften the man 



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and 



dence which we 



that on one fide 



ners of mankind : and the 



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of the extremities of our 



globe 



ders the fibres 



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hole frame of our bod 



more 



harfh, rigid, and infenfible, which undoubtedly operates upon 



and almoft totally deflroys all focial 



the mind, and the heart 



feelings ; on the other fide we find, that the influence of the cli- 

 mate far from being the only caufe of the degeneracy of mankind 



on the extremities of our globe, evidently points us out the fecond 



great 



