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and yet, when he conſiders the natural bias of the human heart to the ſide of mercy, and obſerves on all hands the barbarous governments of Europe giving way to a better ſyſtem of things, he is inclined to hope that the day is beginning to approach when the growing ſentiment of peace and good-will towards men will alſo embrace, in a wide circle of benevolence, the lower orders of life.
At all events, the pleaſing perſuaſion that his work may have contributed to mitigate the ferocities of prejudice, and to diminiſh in ſome degree the great maſs of miſery which oppreſſes the animal world, will in the hour of diſtreſs convey to the Author's heart a conſolation which the tooth of calumny will not be able to impoiſon.
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