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  Transactions.- 
  — 
  Miscellaneous, 
  

  

  and 
  according 
  to 
  their 
  own 
  national 
  conceptions, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  circumstances 
  

   in 
  which 
  they 
  were 
  placed 
  by 
  nature, 
  — 
  without 
  a 
  written 
  language, 
  or 
  the 
  

   use 
  of 
  metals, 
  or 
  beasts 
  of 
  burden, 
  or 
  any 
  knowledge 
  of, 
  or 
  communication 
  

   with, 
  the 
  great 
  world 
  of 
  mankind 
  lying 
  around 
  them, 
  — 
  aye, 
  more 
  ; 
  — 
  without 
  

   teaching 
  or 
  instruction 
  or 
  communication 
  of 
  ideas 
  (even 
  among 
  them- 
  

   selves 
  !) 
  ; 
  — 
  without 
  the 
  healthy 
  incitement 
  arising 
  from 
  competition 
  with 
  

   artists 
  of 
  other 
  tribes, 
  and 
  of 
  exhibition, 
  and 
  of 
  praise 
  from 
  afar 
  ! 
  — 
  without 
  

   even 
  a 
  probable 
  certainty 
  of 
  his 
  even 
  completing 
  what 
  he 
  had 
  painfully 
  

   devised 
  and 
  begun 
  (all 
  such 
  being 
  utterly 
  precluded 
  by 
  their 
  constant 
  

   wars 
  !) 
  ; 
  and 
  without 
  the 
  slightest 
  excitement 
  of 
  pay 
  or 
  reward, 
  as 
  things 
  

   were 
  never 
  made 
  for 
  sale 
  among 
  them 
  ; 
  and 
  also 
  with 
  having 
  a 
  share 
  (in 
  

   common 
  with 
  the 
  other 
  members 
  of 
  his 
  tribe) 
  in 
  the 
  almost 
  daily 
  labours 
  

   attendant 
  on 
  the 
  cultivating 
  and 
  obtaining 
  his 
  food, 
  — 
  from 
  which 
  exertion 
  

   no 
  New 
  Zealander 
  in 
  health, 
  whatever 
  might 
  be 
  his 
  rank 
  or 
  intelligence, 
  

   was 
  ever 
  exempt 
  ; 
  — 
  all 
  these 
  things 
  being 
  fairly 
  weighed 
  and 
  considered, 
  — 
  

   this, 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  way 
  in 
  which 
  they 
  should 
  be 
  judged 
  by 
  us 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  They 
  are 
  of 
  the 
  works 
  of 
  the 
  Father, 
  

  

  And 
  of 
  the 
  one 
  Mind 
  the 
  luteUigible. 
  

  

  For 
  Intehect 
  is 
  not 
  without 
  the 
  InteUigible, 
  

  

  And 
  the 
  InteUigible 
  does 
  not 
  subsist 
  apart 
  from 
  Intellect." 
  — 
  Zoroast. 
  

  

  The 
  Maori 
  of 
  to-day 
  is 
  not 
  worthy, 
  in 
  this 
  respect, 
  to 
  carry 
  the 
  shoes 
  of 
  

   his 
  forefathers. 
  And 
  he 
  knows 
  it 
  ; 
  he 
  feels 
  it. 
  Ichabod 
  1 
  or 
  Fuit 
  Ilium, 
  

   may 
  well 
  be 
  called 
  upon 
  them. 
  

  

  I, 
  who 
  have 
  been, 
  I 
  may 
  be 
  allowed 
  to 
  say, 
  long 
  conversant 
  with 
  them, 
  

   have 
  no 
  hesitation 
  in 
  stating, 
  that 
  the 
  more 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  and 
  known 
  of 
  the 
  

   works 
  of 
  the 
  Ancient 
  New 
  Zealander, 
  the 
  more 
  have 
  I 
  been 
  struck 
  with 
  the 
  

   many 
  indications 
  of 
  their 
  superior 
  mind, 
  — 
  of 
  their 
  fine 
  perception 
  of 
  the 
  

   beautiful, 
  the 
  regular, 
  and 
  symmetrical 
  ; 
  of 
  their 
  desire 
  and 
  labour 
  after 
  the 
  

   beautiful 
  ; 
  of 
  their 
  prompt 
  and 
  genuine, 
  open 
  and 
  fearless 
  criticisms, 
  — 
  in 
  a 
  

   word, 
  of 
  their 
  great 
  Ideality. 
  And 
  this 
  high 
  faculty 
  of 
  theirs 
  which 
  they 
  

   possessed 
  in 
  an 
  eminent 
  degree, 
  will 
  probably 
  be 
  better 
  known 
  and 
  under- 
  

   stood 
  hereafter 
  than 
  it 
  is 
  at 
  present. 
  It 
  was 
  their 
  possession 
  of 
  that 
  faculty, 
  

   even 
  in 
  more 
  modern 
  times, 
  which 
  enabled 
  them 
  at 
  a 
  glance, 
  and, 
  as 
  if 
  by 
  

   inspiration,* 
  to 
  detect 
  inaccuracy 
  or 
  want 
  of 
  aesthetic 
  conformity 
  and 
  exact 
  

   precision 
  in 
  the 
  skilled 
  performances 
  of 
  their 
  European 
  visitors, 
  and 
  as 
  

   quickly 
  to 
  declare 
  it 
  ; 
  — 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  martial 
  exercises 
  of 
  the 
  military 
  (regulars), 
  

   in 
  the 
  want 
  of 
  exact 
  time 
  in 
  the 
  rowing 
  of 
  boats 
  by 
  the 
  most 
  skilful 
  seamen 
  

   of 
  H.M. 
  navy 
  ; 
  — 
  and, 
  in 
  all 
  their 
  own 
  works, 
  to 
  perceive 
  instantaneously 
  

   all 
  such 
  want 
  of 
  symmetry 
  if 
  present. 
  

  

  * 
  I 
  use 
  this 
  word 
  here 
  in 
  the 
  Socratic 
  sense, 
  as 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  Plato, 
  Ion, 
  

  

  