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golden car, and mifery dragging its rags 
along ill the dirt, can never pain their 
hearts: this is an idea which they do not 
comprehend. The fight of indigence trod 
under foot, that punUhment of compaffion- 
ate fouis, never appears to their eyes under a 
thouiand melancholy fliapes. This morti- 
fication man in a ftate of nature never ex- 
periences ; and if man in a ftate of civili- 
ization becomes accuftomed to it in time, 
and if he attains to fuch a degree of apathy 
as to confider that inequality of rank, fo 
fhocking and fo fatal, as the bed ftate, he is 
no longer an avowed child of Nature,- fhe 
(difovvns and rejedts him, afhamed of her 
oy/n v/orks^ which difgrace her hands. 
After having fo long interrupted the thread 
of my narration, to eftablifti fome certain 
.notions refpeftlng thefe Hottentots, hitherto 
too iitcle known, fomething would be ftill 
wantir.g to the information 1 hr.ve given, did 
I not fpeak of a particular fpecies or caft, 
which may be called the compofte^ and 
which is not older than a century. I do 
not know that any traveller has mentioned 
them. This new fpecies will one day efface 
the ancient j and the epoch of their power 
