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 welfare of every animal, and compaionates his pains; for he knows, and is convinced, that of all creatures the eence is the ame, and that one eternal firt caue is the father of us all (2). Hence more olicitous to ave than the cruel vanity and exquiite voraciounes of other nations are ingenious to dicover in the bulk, or tate, or beauty of every creature, a caue of death, an incentive to murder, the merciful mythology of Hindotan hath conecrated, by the metamorphois of the Deity, every