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APPENDIX
OF THE NATURAL BRAVERY AND FORTITUDE OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS--OR THE HISTORY OF THEIR MANNERS AS IT RELATES TO THEIR MILITARY EXPEDITIONS, AND THEIR CONDUCT TO THOSE ARE TAKEN CAPTIVE IN WAR.

THE writers who subdivide the human race into various species have sought support for this opinion, among other arguments, from the great diversity of moral and intellectual powers and qualities which exist between various nations of the globe, and especially between the tribes of African and American savages, and the civilized inhabitants of Europe, or of Asia. Reasoning falaciously from false facts, they have endeavoured to establish such extreme and essential distinctions between them as can be the result only of some original and radical difference of nature. Mr. White has taken for his example the negroes of Africa, and Lord Kaims the indian aboriginals of North-America. The former I have already considered in my remarks on the discourses

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