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 Savages are as unhappy as ome People would have them, by what inconceivable Depravation of Judgment is it that they o contantly refue to be governed as we are, or to live happy among us; whereas we read in a thouand Places that Frenchmen and other Europeans have voluntarily taken Refuge, nay, pent their whole Lives among them, without ever being able to quit o trange a kind of Life; and that even very enible Miionaries have been known to regret with Tears the calm and innocent Days they had pent among thoe Men we o much depie. Should be oberved that they are not knowing enough to judge oundly of their Condition and ours, I mut anwer, that the Valuation of Happines is not o much the Buines of the Undertanding as of the Will. Beides, this Objection may till more forcibly be retorted upon ourelves; for our Ideas are more remote from that Dipoition of Mind requiite for us to conceive the Relih, which the Savages find in their Way of Living, than the Ideas of the Savages from thoe by which they may conceive the Relih we find in ours. In fact, very few Obervations to hew them that all our Labours are confined to two