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 Rh " respects, and taking into consideration that they were men who before, nay even at that time, were in the grossest state of ignorance and moral degradation, our astonishment is excited when we find that in the moment of rage and revenge they often refrained from acts of cruelty and torture, whilst their insatiable enemies were committing the most shocking barbarities."