t VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 



and unjuft right of fubje£ling to their autho- 

 rity thofe tribes whom they call favages^ 

 merely becaufe they are unacquainted with 

 the manners and cuftoms of Europe. 



There is not one of thefe civilized nations 

 that can boaft of having facriiiced ey en a 

 few of the moft trifling interefts of com- 

 merce, to the facred principles of the law of 

 nature* AH of them haye .been uuju^^: and 

 barbarous : all of them have carried the 

 fword, fire, and difeafe into every place to 

 which they were attraded by the hopes of 

 gain. Ought they to forget that the foil 

 upon which thefe favages live belongs to 

 them^ as much as that upon which wc live 

 belongs to us ? 



The Europeans would have acquired 

 more folid and lafting advantages, had they 

 endeavoured to introduce induftry and the 

 arts into thofe countries which are deftitute 

 of them. Thefe prefents would not have 

 7 been 



