not produce sanguinary laws and rage of avarice, that overleaps all bound of justice, and tramples upon humanity. The total deprivation of trade produces robbery - but is not hospitality most rare in trading countries, and is it not found in perfection among nations of vagabonds? Among the ancient Germans, to shut a door against a stranger, would be considered as sacrilege. -

I shall not take upon me, said Maria, to determine how far such nations may merit the opprobrious term you have given them, but I should rather live and die among such a people, than among the most refined; and I think this hospitality, which must necessarily include in it an assiduity to please, is a convincing proof of the excellency of the human heart in a simple state. - What have we got by our boasted improvements and frivilous politeness, but the loss of manly firmness and independence (1). -

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ED. O-S-W.