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From the practice of ſlaughtering an innocent animal, to the murder of man himfelf, the ſteps are neither many nor remote. This our forefathers perfectly underſtood, who ordained that, in a cauſe of blood, no butcher, nor furgeon, ſhould be permitted to ſit in jury.

Animals, whom we have once learnt to deſtroy, without remorſe, we are eaſily brought, without ſcruple, to devour. The corpſe

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