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MANNERS and niore refined moral tafle ; and if ever the bulk of the nation^, 



or part of it, or even only individuals can difpel the prejudices 

 furrounding their minds, and conquer the paffions v/hich influence > 

 their v^ills ; they are fure to a<5l according to the didates of 

 their confcience, which is in that cafe common fenfe relative to 



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nwralSf and the voice of the divinity ftrongly admonifhing them of 

 their duty; they then become fenfible, that the adions of men 



living in a fociety, are by 



means 



different to the community 



But that' every individual is accountable for them to his fellow 



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upon the ■ whole, though the adions of thefe happy 



creatures. 



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people generally have a tendency to humanity and benevolence, 

 they are aduated in fome meafure By a fpirit of felfilhnefs> the 

 great root of corruption^ and are therefore fimilar in that refped 



to the reft of mankind^ whofe adtions are a compound of a felfifh and 

 humane,, benevolent behaviour j which is made ufe of accordino- 



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as prejudices, national charadery and other circumftances prompt 

 them to follow either the one or the other impulfe: and even 



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when felfifhnefs carried away their defires, . to covet - for inftance, 

 the iron- ware, which we had, and induced one or more of 



purloin a nail or knife or fome fuch trifle, they were 



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not fo abfolutely loft to all moral fenfe, as not to fliew 



them 



however 



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by their immediate flight, that they had wronged us : nay, often 



fome of the natives, wh.o were either attached to us from principles 



of 



