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hospitality considered as a noble quality, I leave for others to determine. But it would be hard to seperate the principle from necessity. To bestow food & shelter on those who do not stand in need, would hardly be hospitality - rather it would be prodigality, - a quality quite foreign to nobleness. The deductions to be drawn from this method or argument above, seem to differ from the conclusion of the reverend gentleman to who I am indebted for these sketches; "but", says my informant, "Should one attempt to support himself independently of the rest, they would all be, from time to time, exposed to starvation: - The precarious supply afforded by the chase, - not infrequently unsuccessful in hunting - various accidents which deprive them of, or prevent them from procuring, food, serve to perpetuate the exercise of hospitality. In every band there are many persons unable to support themselves. Hence they are prompted less to the exercise of hospitality by generosity, than by the laws of starvation" Those who have acquired the habit of labouring in the cultivation of the soil, (and they are all but few), have a less precarious living, and with it a less disposition to give away their substance. - So it seems that labor has a tendency to diminish the vanity of mankind. They