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 the comforts of human life (7).—Good God! and is compaſſion then ſo great a crime? Is it ſo heinous an offence againſt ſociety, to reſpect in other animals that principle of life which they have received, no leſs than man himſelf, at the hand of Nature? O, mother of every living thing! O, thou eternal fountain of beneficence; ſhall I then be perſecuted as a monſter, for having liſtened to thy ſacred voice? to that voice of mercy which ſpeaks from the bottom of my heart; while other men, with impunity, torment and Rh