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of a man differs in nothing from the corpſe of any other animal and he who finds the laſt palatable may, without much difficulty, accuſtom his ſtomach to the firſt. To cannibaliſm carnivorous nations have not unſeldom been addicted (5). The antient Germans ſometimes rioted in human repaſts; and, on the bodies of their enemies, feed, with infernal ſatisfaction, the native tribes of America.

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