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 trample upon living Bodies; one Animal never paes unmoved by the dead Carcas of another Animal of the ame Species: there are even ome who betow a kind of Sepulture upon their dead Fellows; and the mournful Lowings of Cattle, on their entering the Slaughter Houe, publih the Impreion made upon them by the horrible Spectacle they are there truck with. It is with Pleaure we ee the Author of the Fable of the Bees, forced to acknowledge Man a compaionate and enible Being; and lay aide, in the Example he offers to confirm it, his cold and ubtile Stile, to place before us the pathetic Picture of a Man, who, with his Hands tied up, is obliged to behold a Beat of Prey tear a Child from the Arms of his Mother, and then with his Teeth grind the tender Limbs, and with his Claws rend the throbbing Entrails of the innocent Victim. What horrible Emotions mut not uch a