don't know how to ſet a Value upon themſelves, or compare themſelves one with another, may do each other a great deal of Miſchief, as often as they can expect any Advantage by doing it, without ever affronting each other. In a word, Man ſeldom conſidering his Fellows in any other Light than he would Animals of another Species, may plunder another Man weaker than himſelf, or be plundered by another that is ſtronger, without conſidering theſe Acts of Violence otherwiſe than as natural Events, without the leaſt Emotion of Inſolence or Spite, and without any other Paſſion than Grief at his Ill, or Joy at his good Succeſs.
Pag. 117.
(16.) It is very remarkable, that for ſo many Years paſt that the Europeans have been toiling to make the Savages of different Parts of the World conform to their Manner of living, they have not as yet been able to prevail upon one of them, not even with the Aſſiſtance of the Chriſtian Religion; for though our Miſſionaries ſometimes make Chriſtians, they never make civilized Men of them. There is no getting the better of their invincible Reluctance to adopt our Manners and Cuſtoms. If theſe poor
