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But there is one article which diſtinguiſhes, from all others, the doctrine of Burmah, and which raiſes, above all the religions on the face of the earth, the ſacred ſyſtem of Hindoſtan. Satisfied with extending to man alone the moral ſcheme, the beſt and mildeſt of other modes of worſhip, to the cruelty and caprice of the human race, every other ſpecies of animal have unfeelingly abandoned. Sovereign deſpot of the world, lord of the life and death of every creature,—man, with the ſaves of histyranny,