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t0F SOCI 

 ETIES* 



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REMARKS 



ON 



THE 



ORIGIN 1 



inhabitants of New-Zeeland certainly belong to the fame race of 



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people with the Taheiteans, it is evident that this cuflom has been 



common to the whole tribe. 



What is ftill more remarkable, it 



feems from thence to follow, that the want of a fufficiency of food 



this ifle, which is lefs fertile than the tropical 



cannot 



have occalioned their cannibalifm, fmce even the inhabitants of the 



happy and fertile tropical ifles were men-eaters. 



without being 



forced to it by diftrefs and hunger, and we mufl therefore 



be 



ther 



fe 



rtainly 

 which 



convinced that there muft be fome o 

 [ginally introduced this unnatural cullom. 

 If w^e examine the whole .ceconomy of their focieties, we find 



that their education is the chief caufe of all thefe enormities 



The 



men 



up the boys in a kind of liberty, w4ich at lafl deg 



rates into licentioufnefs : they fuffer not the mothers to ilrike 

 their petulant, unruly, and wicked fons, for fear of breaking that 

 fpirit of independency, which they feem to value above all things, 



and as the moil neceffary qualification for 



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irafcibility, which, in 

 or word, that can be 



turally brings on an 



any controul, adlion 



their manners and principle 



by paiTion, they are impatient to wreak thei 



paints the injury fo 



heir focieties -, this na- 

 the men, cannot brook 



affront 



that It muft be wafhed 



flrued according to 

 )r injury; inflamed 

 geance : wild fancy 



in blood; 



they know not where to flop, and being more and more incenfed by 



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