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of perpetuating among their progeny, thofe arts, ideas, and princi- 

 ples, which form their fyilem of education. 



Though the more Weflern illes have the fame advantage of a 



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happy climate, are far from being barren, and the numbers of 



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the people by no means inconfiderable ; yet are they lefs im- 



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proved, have fewer arts and improvements, and very imperfed ideas 

 of fcience and ufeful knowledge ; which remarkable difference 



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feems ilrongly to prove, that there is flill another great caufe of 

 the advancement of human knowledge in the Friendly and Society 

 ides, but particularly in the latter ; we have already pointed out 

 the fource of this diiference, (chap. iv. page 295 — 300) viz. that 

 tJie tribes from whom the two races of men in the South Seas de- 

 fcend, had unequally preferved by education and inftrudion, the 



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fyftems of knowledge, which they had obtained from their more 



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remote progenitors : it is therefore only necelTary to give a more 

 detailed idea of the education of thefe nations. 



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The firfl notions neceffary for the way of life now in ufe in 

 iflands, are inftilled into the tender minds of the children by thei 



parents : thefe notions may be divided into various b 



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hich they relate 5 the more univerfally 



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neceffary objeds of all nations, are food 



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