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the various ages of men from infancy to manhood ; with this dif- manners 



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ference only, that men in their colledive capacity ripen but flowly 

 from animality, through the Hates of favages and barbarians into a 

 civilized fociety, which has again an infinite variety of fituations 



and degrees of perfedlion 



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therefore not to be expedled, that 



from a fhort and flight intercourfe with Europeans thefe nations 



ihould make a rapid progrefs in civilization and happinefs, efpecially 



as other concurrent circumflances on our fide were againft it. 

 then returned to a comparative view 



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of the PefTerais and the Eil 



maux, and found the former to be in the lov/eil: ftate of degene- 

 racy and debafement. The New-Zeelanders we obferved to be in- 

 finitely fuperior to them : we then took a view of the moft 

 probable means by which the poor Pefferais may one day 



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emerge 



in to a 



flate 



one degree, at 



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more 



remote from their forlorn condition, and that the increafe 



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of population and want of food may prompt fome tribes to opprefs 

 others ; who either will unite in order to refift their oppreflive 

 brethren, or reduce them to fubjedlionj in both Cafes they muffc 

 become lefs unhappy. The barbarian is capabk of ftrong exertions 

 of phyiical and mental powers, and though outrageous and violent, 

 is forced by the refiftance of others to be guarded and cautious, and 

 to unite with others into focieties, which fooner or later introduce 



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ildnefs of manners, fo that even the very unbounded and 



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