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Will Revert Into A State Approaching Nearer To That Of Nature,
Unencumbered Either With Voluminous Laws, Or Contradictory Codes,
Often Galling The Very Necks Of Those Whom They Protect; And At The
Same Time Sufficiently Remote From The Brutality Of Unconnected
Savage Nature.
Do you, my friend, perceive the path I have found
out?
It is that which leads to the tenants of the great - - - village
of - - - , where, far removed from the accursed neighbourhood of
Europeans, its inhabitants live with more ease, decency, and peace,
than you imagine: where, though governed by no laws, yet find, in
uncontaminated simple manners all that laws can afford. Their system
is sufficiently complete to answer all the primary wants of man, and
to constitute him a social being, such as he ought to be in the
great forest of nature. There it is that I have resolved at any rate
to transport myself and family: an eccentric thought, you may say,
thus to cut asunder all former connections, and to form new ones
with a people whom nature has stamped with such different
characteristics! But as the happiness of my family is the only
object of my wishes, I care very little where we be, or where we go,
provided that we are safe, and all united together. Our new
calamities being shared equally by all, will become lighter; our
mutual affection for each other, will in this great transmutation
become the strongest link of our new society, will afford us every
joy we can receive on a foreign soil, and preserve us in unity, as
the gravity and coherency of matter prevents the world from
dissolution.
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