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when they are not assured of their own interest in its hopes, often render the consequences of death more terrible to them than the pains of dying.  His heaven is accommodated to the rudeness of his ideas.  It lies in a mild, serene, and bounteous sky far to the South, where he shall forever enjoy the pleasures of a successful chace.  Such sensible images are fitted to take the strongest hold upon uncultivated minds.  And Mahomet understood human nature well when he proposed such rewards to soldiers who were neither philosophers, nor saints, but whom he intended to make the conquerors of the world.  I am aware that spiritual ideas are more powerful than all others, when once they have taken full possession of the soul.  But the frailty of human nature, or perhaps, its degeneracy, which is only calling frailty by its cause, makes a sensible religion, and a sensible heaven, the religion and heaven of gross minds.  And, when we see a whole nation suffer with such surprizing constancy we must seek for the reasons of it in such principles as will apply to the mass of mankind. - From the combination of so many causes, the savage tribes of America afford the most distinguished examples of a heroic patience in torture that the history of nations has ever recorded.  

Upon the whole, it results again from the preceeding details of the military history of the aboriginal tribes of North-America, and especially, of their uncommon power of supporting pain, that their mental as well as corporeal qualities may be all accounted for by natural causes, and on the common principles of human nature; and that it is superfluous and unphilosophical to attempt to search for the diversity of their moral, more than of their physical character from the more cultivated Europeans, or the citizens of the United States, in any specific difference of nature or organization.

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