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fions, accounts for the remaining ideas of arts and principles of fo- origin 

 cial life, and of civilization ; and likewife for the laws, regulations 

 and form of government introduced among them ; but the Fejferais 



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are in a quite differ 



dition : for being defcended from th 



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ftraggling America|i tribes, who themfelves were much degene 



rated, they could not derive from 

 any principles 



any idea of edu 



or 



of foe 



nor 



any 



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thofe which are ufually to be met with 



approaching 

 d nations. 



We may add to this, that their numbers are few, and that 



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though their country be very little inferior in lize to one moiety 



inhabitants are found 



th 



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©f Ireland, hardly 2000 



ft 



of land. 



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In thefe fmall wild tribes, it is almofl: certain, that the ftill 



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fmaller focieties, whom navigators have occafionally found, were 

 nearly related to one another ; which makes it probable, that they 

 only keep together becaufe they Hill find fome benefit from theii* 



union 



id mutual affiftance y and this makes the Europeans, who 

 to civil fociety, believe, 'that the ties of friendiliip and 

 blood ftill unite them 3 but it is quite otherwife, for it is not the 



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fed 



reft of fava 



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form g 



bodies, in countries that 



not 



rich in food and animal produdions 3 as foon as they think them- 

 felves flrong enough to fet up a new family, they feparate and remove 



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to parts unoccupied by other families, where they have a profped 



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