Banks of the Eurotas; I would obſerve, that, in general, the Inhabitants of the North are more Induſtrious than thoſe of the South, becauſe they can leſs do without Induſtry; as if Nature thus meant to make all Things equal, by giving to the Mind that Fertility ſhe has denied to the Soil.
But excluſive of the uncertain Teſtimonies of Hiſtory, who does not perceive that every thing ſeems to remove from Savage Man the Temptation and the Means of altering his Condition? His Imagination paints nothing to him; his Heart aſks nothing from him. His moderate Wants are ſo eaſily ſupplied with what he every where finds ready to his Hand, and he ſtands at ſuch a Diſtance from the Degree of Knowledge requiſite to covet more, that he can neither have Foreſight or Curioſity. The Spectacle of Nature, by growing quite fami-
