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 And is not the human race itſelf highly intereſted to prevent the habit of ſpilling blood? For will the man, habituated to havock, be nice to diſtinguiſh the vital tide of a quadruped, from that which flows from a creature with two legs? Are the dying ſtruggles of a lambkin leſs affecting than the agonies of any animal whatever? Or will the ruffian, who beholds, unmoved, the ſupplicating looks of innocence itſelf, and, reckleſs of the calf's infantine cries, plunges, pitileſs, in her Rh