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thirdly. The more extenfive and general the injiuence of all the 

 enjoyment of a man or a fociety, is in regard to their phyfical, moral 

 and focial felicity, the more their happinefs muft be increafed j and 

 on the contrary, if their enjoyments have no effect or influence 



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Upon their own happinefs, or that of others, then indeed it hardly 



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deferves the name of h 



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fiderable. 



By thefe few principles are. we enabl&d to- judge, with a toler?- 

 able degree of preciiion, of the happinefs and. civilization of the na- 

 tjons we met with in the courfe of our voyage ^ efpecially if w^e 



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have a retrofpedl to the caufes which^ promote felicity, and which 

 hinder the fame, or at leafl check its progrefs and. more rapid. inr 



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creafe. 



For when men live in a genial climate, and enjoy the advantages 

 of a happy organization, nature feems to do every thing vi- 



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goroufly, in promoting their happinefs. Thus we fee the early imr 



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provements, grandeur and happinefs of the AlTyrian and Egyptian 

 empires -, their climate is one of the mildeft and mofl temperate ; 

 its inhabitants, even in their prefent degenerated, barbarous il:ate> 



endowed with a lively temper, and quick parts 



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deftitute of good-nature and benevolence : no wonder, therefore 

 that ancient hiftory is fo copious on the flate of their population 



wealth, opulence, arid happinefs, which cannot be controverted 



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