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MANNERS 

 COMPARED 



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in the happinefs and enjoyments of the various tribes who were 



vifited by us in the courfe of our circum-navigation -, it is 



evident 



that the nations become Icfs happy in proportion as they are removed 

 from the tropics and the benign influence of the fun. 



The 



warm^ 



pical climates feem to have^ been originally the feat of the human 



race, which removed to the two colder extremities of the globe 



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chance or cruel neceffity; the wretched 



when forced either 



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and uncomfortable fituation of the PefTerais and New-Zeelanders 



jf 



when 



compared with the real ftate and enjoyment of the 

 Taheiteans, clearly prove that thefe tribes are really debafed and 

 degenerated from their original happinefs^ and that the rigours of 

 the climate firft influence the body and afterwards the mind and 

 the heart. But if we compare the inhabitants of the more Weilern 

 ifles in the South Sea with the Taheiteans, we find that the latter 

 far furpafs the former in every refped: ; which intimates that 

 though the climate greatly. influences the happinefs of a nation, it 



however not the only caufe 



f 



real felicity 



that education 



contributes as much, if not more, towards the good flate of a 

 people j and that the removal from the tropics towards the colder 

 extremities of the globe, together with the gradual lofs of the 

 principles of education greatly contribute to the degeneracy and. 

 debafement of a nation into a low and forlorn condition. Mankind 

 is therefore to be confidered in various fituatiocs, comparable with 



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