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 ¬murder, till recalled to himself by the sublime simplicity of the Prophet : of the second, the evidence is now before the reader, in a kind hearted ingenuous being of our own species, though of another world — you have seen him shedding the tears of pity over human suf- ferings, though they were almost at rhe same moment before him in the most heart-rending shapes, without his feeling them at all. — The ani- mal he had doomed to be destroyed for the gra- tification of an imaginary consequence, was a creature also of God ; his docility and strength were given him as supports to man in his fallen and feeble condition ; he was endued with all the faculties, though suited to his inferior sta- tion, which were bestowed upon himself; and he felt all the bodily pains, perhaps all the pangs of a wounded spirit, which the proudest of man- kind can feel : but public law having been silent which should have proclaimed those truths and have drawn the moral conclusion, he had been left as dead to their. impressions as the savage in the desert — but his soul being now laid suddenly ¬open ¬