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[Page 103]

[margin note - middle page 84]

From what I have observed it will scarcely be possible to assign any Religion to the Aborigines of Van Diemens' Land. Some notion of a malevolent material being in the shape of a man cannot be termed religion.

It is however worthy of remark that from my own limited experiences, and from what has been communicated to me by sensible individuals who have dedicated their lives days to the converting of pagans to christianity, no sooner are the simple truths to the Christian Religion made known to them that than the scales seem as it were to drop from their eyes, and they at once come into our mode of thinking. The savage, as well as the civilized man, will sometime ask for what end man is created. The creation must answer some fixed and definitive purpose, and when once enlightened on the subject the humble and the lowly can just as well enter into the scheme as the wisest man. Man can not be born to strut about this worldly stage merely a few years, 

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