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tyranny, diſclaims the ties of kindred. Howe'er attuned to the feelings of the human heart, their affections are the mere reſult of mechanic impulſe howe'er they may verge on human wiſdom, their actions have only the ſemblance of ſagacity: enlightened by the ray of reaſon, man is immenſely removed from animals who have only inſtinct for their guide, and born to immortality, he ſcorns, with the brutes that periſh, a ſocial bond to acknowledge (1). Such are the unfeeling dogmas, which,early
