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Rh Force, and unmanaged Virtue; something very Great and very Noble may be discerned, but it looketh cumbersome and awkardawkward [sic], and is alone of all Things the worse for being natural. Nature is undoubtedly the best Mistress and the aptest scholar, but Nature herself must be civilized, or she will look savage, as she appears, in the Indian Princes, who are vested with a native Majesty, a surprizing Greatness and Generosity of Soul, and discover what we always regret, Fine Parts, and excellent natural Endowments without Improvement. In those Countries, which we call Barbarous, where Art and Rh