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 who by the bye, have the most enlarged understandings, (their souls being inversely as their enquiries) shew us incontestably, That the is created by the same hand,—engender’d in the same course of nature,—endowed with the same loco-motive powers and faculties with us:—That he consists, as we do, of skin, hair, fat, flesh, veins, arteries, ligaments, nerves, cartileges, bones, marrow, brains, glands, genitals, humours, and articulations;—is a Being of as much activity,—and, in all senses of the word, as much and as truly our fellow-creature as my Lord Chancellor of England.—He may be benefited, he may be injured,—he may obtain redress; in a word, he has all the claims and rights of humanity, which Tully, Puffendorff, or the best ethick writers Rh