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llaame]efs eiFrontery, we muft give the palm to to the O-Taheiteans, 

 who, like the true children of nature, have a fympatlii^ing tear, 

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Humano generi darefe natura fatetur^ 



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Dances, mufic, and poetry, "are ufed at 0-Taheitee to diifufe 

 chearfulnefs and mirth, the blellirigs of a focial life, into the minds 

 of the whole nation, * and the ftage is there, the inftrucftor of 

 virtue, and cenfor of immorality and vice • in a fenfe by far more 



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When the polite, arts become the promoters of fo great and fo 

 univerfally beneficial advantages, ' even the mofl morofe and gloomy 

 philbfophefs mufl allow them a place among the objeds which 

 ought to be communicated in a fyftemof ufeful and moral educatloli. 

 In this light therefore, thefe nations confider thefe ai^ts ; every in- 

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