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REMARKS 



ON 



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ORIGIN ral the beneiit .of communicating to all the tribes a willingnefs to 



OF SOCI- 

 ETIES. 



exert themfelves, to unite the intereft of 



families againfl: 



the oppreffion of others, and to give them that dawning of civil 



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fociety, which is alone the great improver and preferver of human 

 happinefs, in its phyfical, moral, ai 



d focial fenfe 



If therefore the favages by an happy exertion cf their phyfical 

 and mental powers, rife one ilep higher in the clafs of rational 

 beings, their fituation no doubt, becomes upon the whole more 

 improved ; but at the fame time this very ilate, though more vi- 



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gorous and more adive, often breaks out into fuch enormities, as 

 make the heart ache, and are humiliating to human nature, Nevsr 

 Zeeland offers us an inftance of this alTertion : whofoever cafts 



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an eye upon them with a view to compare their fituation with 



that of the PefTerai 



doubt will allow that of the Nev/-Zee 



landers to be greatly preferable in every refpecft. They inhabit a 

 milder climate both by lituation and temperature, which has 



and taken off that rigour which 



foftened the fibres and organs, 



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certainly influences the mental and moral faculties of the PefTerais, 



by narrowing their minds, and brutalizing their feelings. Front 

 this fomewhat lefs conflrided and harfli ilate of their organization, 

 their minds have acquired a larger and more liberal circle of ideas, 



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improved by a greater population, and the advaj;itages arifmg from 

 fhence by mutual afliftance, improvements, inilrucftion, ; 



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