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REMARKS ON the 



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MANNERS imprdvement andperfedion of theb in telledual faculties,, than of 



thofe of the males. The various objeds furrounding them make 

 quicker and more vivid impreflions on the fenfes of the females,. 



becaufe th 



finer and more irritable : this makes them 



more 



inclined to imitation, and. more quick in obferving the pro- 

 perties and relations of things ^ their memory is more faithful in 

 retaining them ; and their faculties thereby become more capable o£ 

 comparing them, and of abftrading general ideas from their per- 



ceptions 



This facilitates to them the various operations of their 



toilfome, laborious life, and often, leads them tov^ards new im- 



provements 



Ufed implicitly to fubmit to the will of their males 



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they have been early taught to fupprefs the flights of paffion ^ cooler 

 reflexion, gentlenefs, and every method for obtaining the approba- 



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tion, and for winning the good-will of others have taken their 

 place, and mufl: in time naturally contribute to (ohtn that harflmefs 

 of manners, which is become habitual in the barbarous races of m.en ; 

 ^nd all this may perhaps prepare them for the firfl: dawnings of ci- 



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vilization. The males in barbarous nations look upon the women as 

 their property, and this went fo far, that in New-Zeeland the fa- 

 thers and neareft relations were ufed to fell the favours of their fe- 

 males to thofe of our fhip's company, who were irrefifliibly attiaded 

 by their charms ; and often wer^ thefe vidims of brutality dragged 



by the fathers into the dark rec^flTes of the fliip, and there left to the 



2 beaftly 



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