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Moſt unfortunately too for this canine argument of thoſe advocates of murder, it happens, that the monkey, and eſpecially the man monkey, who ſubſiſts ſolely on fruit, is furniſhed with teeth as canine, as keenly pointed, as thoſe of man (3).

Having thus briefly refuted an objection, which modern wiſdom has deemed inſuperable, I proceed barely to point out a few reaſons, which ſeem to indicate, that man was intended by nature, or, in

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