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 tyranny, diclaims the ties of kindred. Howe'er attuned to the feelings of the human heart, their affections are the mere reult of mechanic impule ‬howe'er they may verge on human widom, their actions have only the emblance of agacity: enlightened by the ray of reaon, man is immenely removed from animals who have only intinct for their guide, and born to immortality, he corns, with the brutes that perih, a ocial bond to acknowledge (1). Such are the unfeeling dogmas, which,