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PROGRESS fiibordination take place. They think themfelves happy, n^xy:,, 



OF SA 



VAGE 



g happier than the befc regulated. nation, and every individual of them 



is ib. perfectly contented with his condition, -that not even-a-wiOi 

 is left in his breail for the leaft alteration.^ 



But a mind accuftomed to meditation, and able -to affix to every 

 thing its true value, mull certainly perceive, that this lituatioii 

 of the favage or barbarian, is nothing more than a ilate of intoxi- 

 cation ; ^Hs happinefs and contentment founded on mere ienfuality, 

 is tranfitory and delufive 5 the fum of all his enjoyments is fo 



fmail, fo defedive 



particulars, and of fo little -val 



that 



a man in his fenfes cannot but think liimfelf happy that he was 

 born in a civilized nation, educated in a country where fociety is 



uch improved as is poffible^ .that he belong 



peor 



who 



^re governed by .the mil deft laws, and have .the happieft conftitution 



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of government, being under the influence of civil and religious 



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liberty, • 



.If therefore. the happinefs of the favage is not fo eligible, as 

 fome philofqphers will make us believe, who never viewed mankind 



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^* This Is applicable to the favag^s of Ticrra del JFuego, and the barbarians of New 

 Zeeland : but the inhabitants of O-Taheitee and the Society Ifles, are beyond this ftate. 

 None of the firft two races of men, upon the offer being made to them, fliewed any defir-e 



; own cour.try \ and there are already feven or eight inftanccs, to my 



latter ifles, who willingly ofTercd to go with us to 



to go with us to our 



knonvledge, of pcrfons fr(Jm the 



JEurope. 



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