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PROGRESS capable of ai;///2;^//(?;/, and how many degrees of refinement does 



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OF SA- 

 VAGES. 



not even this lituation admit ? 



Infancy is in individuals, merely animal life. In the fame man- 

 ner the lovi^efl degree of degeneration in collecflive bodies is 

 ANiMALiTY. C/6/Mw^ is undefigning, harmlefs, and innocent; 

 private property and perfonal fecurity of others, are ideas which the 



to be taught w^hen he emerges from infancy, for he knows 



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boy is 



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of no other law than that of the ilrongeft. The savage has 

 likewife no idea of the perfonal fecurity of any other befides himfelf, 

 nor thinks better in regard to private property : he kills where he 

 is the jflrongeft, and he robs where he cannot otherwife obtain the 

 poffeffion of what he covets. Adokfcence is the age of violent 

 paffions, breaking out in outrages againft all the principles of 



morality ; carrying away like an impetuous flood whatever oppofes 

 its defires : the youth has the dawning of underflanding and reafon, 

 and if the mental faculties are not improved in this ilage, and the 

 paflions made fubfervient to reafon, he degenerates into profligacy. 



The barbarian is likewife fiery 



and brings on his ov/n rum. 



and violent, without controul and principles, nay, capa^.e o 



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mofl: deteftable outrages : 



nations m 



this flate want education 



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and improvement more than in any other 



Manhood and a 



mature age 



are 



fimilar to the civilized state, and h 



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therefore feveral degrees. 



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