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REMARKS 



O N 



THE 



ARTS' 



w 



AND 

 SCIENCES 



even abhorred ; population Inci 





fed prodigioufly, a 



nd the mech: 



nical arts, the various branches of trade, and fcience began to be 



cultivated, received daily improvements 



_ r 



human knowledge was mor 



and more 



and the whole circle of 

 larged. The countries 



fituated near 



th 



th of the rivers Tigris and Euph 



were 



mu 



n 



h of the fame nature with Egypt ; and it was there likewife. 



that agriculture, and the cultivation of trades. 



a 



rts and fciences 



known 



r 



wh 



the refl: of the world was ftill buried 



in barbarifm. 



We find the fame climate, the fame conftitution 



+ 



of the countrv, the fame early ufe of agriculture, and the fame 

 progrefs in trade, arts and fciences, on the banks of th 



Sind and 



Ganges in India, and of the Hoan-ho and Tan-tfe-kian in Ch 



<^ 



After thefe inftances, the fad may be fuppofed fo well eflablifhed 



doubt can remain ab 



of 



And 



the arts 



degree may we likewife account for the progrefs which 



had made in the Friendly and the Society-illes : thefe have a con- 



r 



fiderable population, which I fuppofe, at firft obliged the inhabi- 



tants to increafe the native produdions of their lands, by a careful 



cultivation ; the mildnefs of the climate, the great fertility of their 



foil, the progrefs they made in agriculture, enabled them to enjoy 



the advantages of mutual afTnlance, and to relifli the charms of fo- 



ciety y all thefe concurring circumfhances gave rife to the firft. notion 



of 



