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S^outh- Sea, never may, perhaps, be fo unhappy, if left to them- PRiNCi- 

 felves, as to be again degraded to a more debafed condition ; they 



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be able to make, unaffifled, any 



or rapid progrefs towards a higher civilization,, ©r more improved: 

 condition, becaufe the' fmall fize of their illes will not admit of 



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tliefe improvements : and in cafe they fhould attempt to make con- 

 quefls and unite feveral fmall illands into one political body ; many 



centuries muft elapfe before the little jealoulies between the van 



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quifhed people and the conquerors will wear oiF,, and by a happy 

 coalition one powerful^ nation can be eflablifhed ; which, hov/ever, 

 is abfolutely required, if they are to make large ftrides towards im- 

 provement in fcience, morality, arts, manufadlures, or hufbandryt 



and thus together form one great fcene of happinef^.. 



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