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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER II
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The Caribbees were wont to geld their children, on purpose to fat and eat them.

And Garcilasso de la Vega tells us of a people in Peru which were wont to fat and eat the children they got on their female captives, whom they kept as concubines for that purpose, and when they were past breeding, the mothers themselves were killed too and eaten.

The virtues whereby the Tououpinambos believed they merited paradise, were revenge, and eating abundance of their enemies.

They have not so much as a name for God, and have no religion, no worship.

The saints who are canonized amongst the Turks, lead lives which one cannot with modesty relate.


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