Excerpt from A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, Vol. 5: Translated From the FrenchWhatever maybe the cafe with regard to their origin or their ant1qu1ty, which are both nacer tain, it is perhaps a more interefling object, of in quiry, whether thofe untutored nations'aremore or lefs happy than ourcivilized people. Let £15} therefore, examine whether the conditioncof 'rude man left to mere animal in'fiinét, who paffes every day offihis life in hunting, feeding, producing his fpecies, and repofing himfelf, is better, or, worfe than the condition of that wonderfulibcing, {who makes his bed of down, fpins and weaves the thread of the {ilk-worm to clothe himfelf, -has exchanged the cave his original abode, for a palace, and has varied his indulgences and his wants in a thoufand different ways.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.