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REMARKS 



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r H E 



OF SOCI- 

 ETIES. 



ORIGIN of fuppotrting their wives and children, and perhaps a few younger 



brethren or filliers. This evidently points out the true caufe of 

 the debafem^nt and degeneracy in favages ; they can neither profit 

 by the alHftance, nor by the inventions and improvements of others, 

 and the fmallnefs of their numbers affords but a bad chance for a 



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multiplicity of inventions or improvements. The inftrudions and 

 good advice of long experience are loft to them, and the conftant 

 neceffity of procuring a precarious food for the family, robs them 

 ©f that leifure, which is neceffary for inftru<flion, and a more 

 finifhed education. As foon as their numbers increafe, that the 

 country can no more feed the inhabitants, they mull of courfe 

 either opprefs and expel, or kill others, in order to occupy their 

 fifhing and hunting places ; or they are obliged to migrate to an 



unoccupied country j or they muft devife new methods of 

 procuring food with eafe for their increafed numbers. Seldom 



their indolence conquered to that deg 



that th 



ey mig 



or become induflrious, and find out a new kind of food, and a 

 new way , of living. Oppreffion is commonly reprefented to 

 their minds as the eafieft and furefl method, they therefore diflodge 

 their neighbours, or put them to death, and take their wives and 

 children for their Haves 



fuccefs, and powerful 



and drudges. Thus 



grown 



elated with 



extent of land 



d enjoying thofe 



advantages which fupply them with the means of fupporting 



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