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 forced by hot-beds, tend more to putrefaction, and conſequently are more unfit for human food than thoſe that are brought up in the natural manner.—Ibid. p. 73.—I have ſometimes indulged a conjecture, that animal food, and made or artificial liquors, in the original frame of our nature, and deſign of our creation, were not intended for human creatures. They ſeem to me neither to have theſe ſtrong and fit organs for digeſting them, (at leaſt ſuch as birds and beaſts of prey have, who live on fleſh) nor naturally to have thoſe voracious and brutiſh appetites that require animal food and ſtrong liquors to ſatisfy them; nor thoſe cruel and hard hearts, or thoſe diabolical paſſions which could eaſily ſuffer them to tear and deſtroy their fellow creatures,