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Peloponesian War by sharing the gold & Luxury of their neighbours; what we have said of Courage holds equaly with regard to Arts & Sciences that has successively gone from one Nation to another, run over all Cimates form the banks of the Indus to the Island of Britain.

To education therefore & the fortuitous circumstances of situation these Countrys whose annals are full of great characters owe their Superiority.

The amasing Conquests of the Northern Nations have deletion had /deletion however other manners of Solution, we are tol'd that they are owing to the great Superiority of courage & force with which Nature has endow'd the Northern Nations; this is a flatering opinion for the Europeans tho perhaps ill founded, let us examine