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 and yet, when he coniders the natural bias of the human heart to the ide of mercy, and oberves on all hands the barbarous governments of Europe giving way to a better ytem of things, he is inclined to hope that the day is beginning to approach when the growing entiment of peace and good-will towards men will alo embrace, in a wide circle of benevolence, the lower orders of life.

At all events, the pleaing peruaion that his work may have contributed to mitigate the ferocities of prejudice, and to diminih in ome degree the great mas of miery which opprees the animal world, will in the hour of ditres convey to the Author's heart a conolation which the tooth of calumny will not be able to impoion. THE