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  PREFACE. 
  

  

  ties 
  of 
  Reason 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  question 
  how 
  

   far 
  the 
  first 
  use 
  and 
  the 
  first 
  direction 
  

   of 
  his 
  mental 
  powers 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  

   as 
  purely 
  instinctive 
  in 
  Man 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  

   Bee 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  Beaver 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  relation 
  

   between 
  the 
  two 
  tendencies 
  in 
  Man 
  to 
  

   advance 
  and 
  to 
  decline; 
  on 
  the 
  causes 
  

   of 
  degradation 
  which 
  are 
  born 
  with 
  him 
  

   and 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  inseparable 
  from 
  his 
  

   nature; 
  on 
  the 
  bearing 
  upon 
  the 
  whole 
  

   argument 
  of 
  existing 
  facts 
  respecting 
  his 
  

   distribution 
  on 
  the 
  globe, 
  and 
  the 
  obvious 
  

   effects 
  upon 
  him 
  of 
  hardship 
  and 
  of 
  

   suffering 
  to 
  produce, 
  or 
  to 
  intensify, 
  a 
  

   barbarous 
  condition; 
  — 
  on 
  each 
  and 
  all 
  of 
  

   these 
  questions, 
  which 
  enter 
  into 
  the 
  

  

  