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 pecies of animal. A Chritnah, a Lechemi, a Madu auming, in the coure of their eternal metempychois, the form of a cow, a lizard, or a monkey, anctify and render inviolate the perons of thoe animals; and thus, with the entiments of pity, concur the prejudices of religion, to protect the mute creation from thoe in juries which the powerful are but too prone to inflict upon the weak. When