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lly become fober enough to be convinced, that it is more reafon 



able to lay afide the cuftom of eating 



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ORIGIN 

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ufeful than one that is dead or roafled ; they in confe- 



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quence change their unnatural cruelty into a more humane beha- 

 viour j though it be not quite free from injuflice and interef]:, it is 



however, lefs deftrud 



mankind 



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prepares 



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way to a 



more humane and benevolent fcene. Or let us on the other hand 

 fuppofe, thefe barbarians meet with unmerited fuccefs, and always 

 rout their neighbours, as often as they take the field ; thefe humili- 

 ated foes, m order to avoid their utter ruin and deilrudion, will at laft 

 offer terms of accommodation ^ and though their condition fhould 

 become as abjecft as poiTible, they will prefer it to a greater and un- 

 avoidable evil, involving the whole ruin of their tribe ; the con- 

 querors will foon difcover, that by preferving the lives of their fub- 



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jeded foes, they may reap confiderable advantages from their labour 

 and united force, which will gradually improve their condition, and 

 render them more and more happy. 



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This idea might be deemed imaginary -, but upon examination, 

 it will appear to be eftablifhed in truth. In the Northern lile of 



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New-Zeeland, in a diftrid: of more than 90 miles, Captain Cook, 



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found in his former voyage, the name of a great chief, called 



acknowledged 5 and it fliould fcem 



Teiratoo, to 



be generally 



from thence, that the fmall tribes under his dominion, v/ere ei- 



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