23S TRAVELS 
where morals have become the vi<£tim of felfifli and corrupt paf- 
fions. It is the traveller, who, conftantly carrying about with him 
his ideas of civilization (which is often only a different name for a 
fyflem of refined felfifhnefs), introduces his degraded notions into 
the bofom of a fimple people, obliging from inlfind, and gene¬ 
rous and beneficent from nature. We for ever confider it as in¬ 
cumbent upon us to reward every little attention with money; 
and knowing no gratification equal to that of receiving pecuniary 
acknowledgment, w 7 e render the pureft pleafures of our nature 
venal by the recompences we beftow, and corrupt and debafe, by 
views of intereft, that fenfe of duty which is cherifhed by a fenti- 
ment of pleafure, and enjoyed by every moral heart upon perform- 
ing a good action to his fellow men. 
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