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 common ruin, involved with man the inferior orders of animals. But to this atrocious tyranny which over kindred ſouls we now exerciſe without feeling or remorſe, the human race were conducted by gradual abuſe. For however ſevere the ſervices might be which man, newly enlightened, required from his former friends, ſtill he reſpected their life, and, ſatisfied with their labour, abhorred to ſhed their blood (20). Rh