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welfare of every animal, and compaſſionates his pains; for he knows, and is convinced, that of all creatures the eſſence is the ſame, and that one eternal firſt cauſe is the father of us all (2). Hence more ſolicitous to ſave than the cruel vanity and exquiſite voraciouſneſs of other nations are ingenious to diſcover in the bulk, or taſte, or beauty of every creature, a cauſe of death, an incentive to murder, the merciful mythology of Hindoſtan hath conſecrated, by the metamorphoſis of the Deity, everyſpecies
