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Xjeneral Principled of National Happtnefs. — Increafe 



Populatio?2. — Caufes of Unio?2. — 'Cultivation. — Property. 



Society. — Governme?it. 



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TUM GENUS HUMANUM PRIMUM MOtLESCERE COEPIT 



Lucretius^ 1. y 



PLES OF 

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H E odious liumiliating fcenes of barbarifm are fo irkfome and 

 So tedious to the mind of the obferver, that it gives pleafure 



know that they are pail: 



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therefore not a common deg 



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of felfdenial, fortitude, and heroifm, required in a man, to refign 

 his whole life to the education and improvement of barbarians ^ 



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to have the fcenes of cruelty and of debafement day after day 

 before his eyes, to fee his benevolent intentions oppofed and de- 

 feated, and if any improvements take place, to obferve their flow 

 and tardy growth. On the other hand, it is next to impoffible, 

 to defcribe the pleafing fatisfadion, and the agreeable feelings 



arifmg at the fight of happy fcenes, in a nation abounding with 



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benevolence, and fhewing the firft blolToms of focial feelings. 

 The paffing through the gloomy fcenes of the iirfl, is a flight 



through utter and through middle darknefs. 



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