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ORIGIN 

 OF SOCI- 

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dread. In vidory they are infolent, cruel, and vindidive, carrying 



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the moft unnatural and inhuman deg 



that of feafling 



upo 



th 



vi<5tims of their victorious prowefs. They treat their 



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women in the moil oppreffive 



or 



fla 



and the p 



and relat 



like the mofl abje<fl drudges, 

 ions frequently fold to the 



Grangers the favours of the females, even againft their will ; which 

 cireumftances certainly proceed from the injurious and overbearing' 



notions 



tertained 



gard to their women, whom they d 



not' 



think to be helpmates, but creatures 



tended for the fatisfa6tion 



of brutifh defires only 



and deftined to 



firm them in idlenefs 



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and indolence. This idea prevailed fo far, that we frequently 

 faw the little boys flrike their mothers, while the fathers flood by 

 and would not permit the mothers- to corred their children. They 

 have alia paffion for ornaments, and drefs ; and they decorate the 

 mofl common tools of huibandry or their arms, in a curious manner 

 with volutes and fcrolls, not altogether without tafte. They are 

 fond of romantic and fabulous tales, of mufic, fongs and dances ; 



their fights are begun with a martial cadenced fong and dance 



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They have fome ideas of relig 



and accounts of various invifible 



divinities, and a belief of the exillencc of the fouls of their friends j 

 but fuperilition feems not to have gained much ground among 

 them, as far as we could obferve. They have however, rites and 

 cuftoms peculiar to themfelves, which they perform on certain 



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occafions ; 



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