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great caufe of degeneracy of the human race, the want of education, progress 

 by which means the moft ufeful notions, tending to improve our 

 phyfical, mental, moral, and focial faculties, are propagated, 

 perpetuated, and laftly increafed by new additional ideas. 



Before I conclude this chapter, I beg leave to add a few 



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We have reprefented the favages living on the frozen extremities 

 of our globe, as mofl: debafed, degenerated, and wretched ; and it 



is neverthelefs certain, that though their condition appear to us 

 forlorn, and they themfeves be in our eyes the outcafl of the 

 human fpecies ; they do not think fo meanly of their own lituation; 

 nay, fo far from fuppoling themfelves unhappy; they rather 

 glory in the advantages of their way of living, and none of them 



would exchange his cold climate for one that is more temperate, 

 his wretched hut for a comfortable European houfe, nay, not even 

 for the mofl magnificent palace ; he thinks his piece of feals-fkia 

 a more becoming drefs than the beft filks and brocades -, nor would 



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To be controuled by wife laws and regulations, is what the fpirit 

 of fome of thefe rambling barbarians could never brook ; and indc- 

 pendence, licentioufnefs, and revenge their favourite paffions, render 

 them abfolutely unfit for any well-regulated fociety, and caufe in 

 them a general contempt for our way of living, where order and 



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