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this view they set apart certain races of men foreach of the various professions and arts necessaryin a well-ordered society, and appointed theexercise of them to be transmitted from father toson in succeffion. This system, though extremelyrepugnant to the ideas which we, by being placedin a very different state of society, have formed,will be found, upon attentive inspection, betteradapted to attain the end in view, than a carelessobserver is, on a first view, apt to imagine. Thehuman mind bends to the law of necessity, andis accustomed, not only to accommodate itself tothe restraints which the condition of its nature, orthe institutions of its country, impose, but toacquiesce in them. From*his entrance into life,an Indian knows the station allotted to him, andthe functions to which he is destined by his birth.The objects which relate to these are the firstthat present themselves to his view. They occupyhis thoughts, or employ his hands; and, fromhis earliest years, he is trained to the habit ofdoing with ease and pleasure that which he mustcontinue through life to do. To this may beascribed that high degree of perfection conspicuousan many of the Indian manufactures; and thoughveneration for the practices of their ancestors maycheck the spirit of invention, yet, by adhering totthese, they acquire such an expertness and delicacyof hand , that Europeans , with all the advantagesof superior science, and the aid of more completeinstruments , have never been able to equal theexquisite execution of their w'OrJcmanship. Whiie

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