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difagreements, and puni/hes the wanton diilurbers of princi 



public peace 



the 



in 



him 



thority of the whole community, centers 



and as many advantages accrue to hi 



on 



different 



ilons and opportunities offer of making acquifitions of property. 



either by the 

 members of t 



luntary, general 

 community, or 



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tributions, of all the inferio 

 the adminiilration and diflri 



bution of the public property and wealth, it may be expeded that he 

 will become pofTefled of a greater fliare of wealth than any of the reft, 

 which muft gradually give him more influence and greater power ; 

 his family no doubt participate of this power, influence and wealth, 

 and confequently form a clafs of people diflindt from the commons. 

 If the fociety is attacked or injured by another fociety, and all 





to 



pel 



and 



u 



pon 



the invaders and diflurbers of the peace, the fame wrongs which 



they intended to m^iCt y it is natural to fuppofe, that upon a very 



great provocation, and a confequently greater exertion of power, 



they may become vidorious, which mufl, of courfe, make the con- 

 dition 



of the vanquifhed tribe, inferior to that of the lowefl of th 



o 



vi(5lori( 

 fociety 



rnmunity, and create a new rank 



of peopl 



Thefe feem to be the confequences of matrimonial 



of paternal authority, and the more general authority of a chief of 



a fociety, and the origin of ranks in 0-Taheitee, the Society, and 

 Friendly Ifles. 



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The 



PLES OF 

 UNION. 



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