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m confirm their hig'h rank. The orgamzatloij of their bodies MANNERa 



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feems to me to be the moft happy and fufceptible of enjoyment and 

 improvement;^ of all the other nations before -mentioned ;.. the climate- 



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they live in, the vicinity of fo many iilands,, peopled by the fame 

 nation, fpeaking the fame language, enjoying the iame kind of go- 

 vernment, accuftomed to the fame laws and regulations> inflrudted 

 in \h^ iame principles, having the fame ideas in regard to mora- 

 lity and religion, the fame food, drefs, habitations, and general, 

 niannefsi in a word, every thing contributes to conned: and to 



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form them for a higher degree of enjoyment. 



Men, of different inclinations, who are endued with rational fouls^^ 



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capable of forming various ideas, 

 to perfedion only, when they ftrive tc 

 ledge of a variety of objedis, and take 



found to make advan 



quire a competent know- 

 "e to admit no other ideas 



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among thofe who may ferve them in life, than^ fuch as are perfe<ftly 

 conformable to truth, and which exprefs to the mind the real qua- 

 lities and properties of things 5, and when their thoughts and anions 

 ,are directed by the f]:ri(fl rule of right. In this cafe they will foon 



difcover that thougli 



be a. ftrong inflind: in their breails;,. 



prompting them to appropriate as much good to themfelves as pof- 

 fible, yet the enjoyment of it will foon become more and more im- 



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perfect, and unhappinefs,, in fome meafure, the confequence ; but 

 by transferring ads of benevolence, to other men, they foon open to- 



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