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 Banks of the Eurotas; I would oberve, that, in general, the Inhabitants of the North are more Indutrious than thoe of the South, becaue they can les do without Indutry; as if Nature thus meant to make all Things equal, by giving to the Mind that Fertility he has denied to the Soil.

But excluive of the uncertain Tetimonies of Hitory, who does not perceive that every thing eems to remove from Savage Man the Temptation and the Means of altering his Condition? His Imagination paints nothing to him; his Heart aks nothing from him. His moderate Wants are o eaily upplied with what he every where finds ready to his Hand, and he tands at uch a Ditance from the Degree of Knowledge requiite to covet more, that he can neither have Foreight or Curioity. The Spectacle of Nature, by growing quite