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and intercourfe. This facilitates the 

 happinefs of the Indian Lover, who 

 finds no obftacles to the fruition of his 

 defires from inequality in rank or for- 

 tune, or from the views which ambition 

 and intereft infpire ; and this annihilates 

 all envy and difcontent. But the ad- 

 vantages refulting from the paucity and 

 fimplicity of their defires, contribute to 

 their felicity in a more eminent degree. 

 Man's real wants are but few, and thofe 

 few not long ; though in civilized coun- 

 tries they have been multiplied by 

 luxury and refinement to an excrucia- 

 ting excefs. 



Thofe who have been unhappily fa- 

 miliarized to all the various refine- 

 ments of luxury and effeminacy which 

 attend the Great, and whofe deluded 

 imaginations efteern them efiential to 

 happinefs, will hardly believe that an 

 Indian, without any other covering but 



what 



