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MR- LEDY ARB'S 
" I have always remarked, that v/omen, in all countries, ai-e 
civil, obliging, tender, and humane ; that they are ever inclined 
to be gay and chearftil, timorous and modeft ; and that they do 
not hefitate, like men, to perform a generous adion. Not 
haughty, not arrogant, not fupercilious, they are full of courtefy^ 
and fond of fociety : more liable, in general, to err than man ; 
but in general, alfo, more virtuous, and performing more good 
actions than he. To a M^oman, v^hether civilized or favage, I 
toever addrelTed myfelf in the language of decency and friendfhipy 
without receiving a decent and friendly anfwer. With man it 
has often been otherwife. 
" In wandering over the barren plains of inhofpitahle Den- 
J7iarky through honejl Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and 
chiirUp Finland, unprincipled RuJJia, and the wide fpread re- 
gions of the wandering Tartar, if hungiy, dry, cold, wet, or fick, 
the women have ever been friendly to me, and uniformly fo ; 
and to add to this virtue, (fo w^orthy the appellation of bene- 
volence) thefe a6:ioTis have been performed in fo free, and fo 
kind a manner, that if I was dry, I drank the fweeteft draught, 
and if hungry, I eat the coarfe morfel with a double relifh." 
But though the native benevolence, which even among Sa- 
vages 
