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To us, indeed, who are ufed to live 



better regulated focie 



where for many years backwards, anthropophagy has been 



But! 



difufe, it is always a horrid idea, that men {hould eat men. 

 cannot help obferving, that this barbarifm is one of the fteps, by 

 which dQUCcd humanity, is gradually prepared for a better Hate 



of happinefs 



the favage ftate, wher 



man 



juft 



remove 



from animality, wherein he has no other impulfe for adion, than 



; into flupid indolence, which more and more 



foon link 



man is 



debafes all his powers and faculties : but fcarce have the paffion 

 begun to ad: as the main fprings of human adions, when 

 carried from the firfl excentric adion to a fecond, from one enor- 

 mity to another, and from this or that fhocking fcene of cruelty, 

 barbarilm and inhumanity to others of a higher degree : thefe would 



an outrageous height, were it not for certain circum- 



grow to 



ftances,, which at lafl naturally put a total flop to thofe inhuman 

 pra(5tices. 

 - euftom of 



If therefore barbarians, who flill preferve the fhocking 



men 



th 



ther tribes that have the fame 



barbarous euftom, and are ftrong or adive enough, either by chance 



ghbo 



their inhuman wrong 



numbers mu 



{]; decreafe 



or bravery, to check their ne 



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they will foon be fenfible, thai 

 by thefe lolTes ; they will therefore grow more cautious in pro- 

 voking their anger or vengeance by new outrages, and will gradu^ 



ally 



