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 "Animals there are who are more forcibly actuated than man himelf, with principles of jutice, gratitude, and of all the virtues. The mot impartial principles of equity are oberved in the republic of the bees, of the ants. The dove oberves the mot rigid forbearance towards the females of his fellows, and if any one of them is guilty of adultery, he is perecuted by the others, and put to death. The gratitude of the dog is known to a proverb."—Porphyrius de Abtin.

"Ingratitudinem hominum, a quîs, pro ummis beneficiis crudele exitium Darius pertulit, quamquam uopte ingenio horrendam et execrabilem, infigniore ad poteritatem infamia damnavit canis cujudam