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 There are dieaes of animal nature which nothing but amputation can remove; o there may, by the depravation of human paions, be ometimes a gangrene in collective life for which fire and the word are the neceary remedies; but in what can kill or caution be better hewn than preventing uch dreadful operations, while there is yet room for gentler methods?

is wonderful with what coolnes and indifference the greater part of mankind ee war commenced. Thoe that hear of it at a ditance, or read of it in books, but have never preented its evils to their minds, confider it as little more than a plendid game, a proclamation, an army, a battle, and a triumph. Some indeed mut perih in the mot uccesful field, but they die upon the bed of honour, reign their lives amidt the joys of conquet, and, filled with England’s glory, mile in death.