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 would learn to fear GOD, and to observe his laws; if the Earth were full of the Knowledge of the as the waters cover the Seas, Nature herself would wear another face. All would be peace, harmony, and love. Men would become merciful; Savage Brutes would become tame; and the tame Brutes would no more groan under the lash, and bear the weight of the sins of Men; but all, both Men and Brutes would experience the blessing of the renovating change. When the LION shall eat straw like the OZ, as he once did, the Lion will be as tame as the Ox;