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Rh consulted the welfare of inferior creatures, and neither spoiled them by indulgence nor injured them by tyranny. Happy would mankind be if every one, like her, acted in conformity to the will of their Maker, by cultivating in their own minds, and those of their children, the divine principle of general benevolence. From the foregoing examples I hope my young readers will select the best for their own imitation, and take warning by the rest; otherwise my will have been written in vain.